Rethinking Montage
Berlin Alexanderplatz’s Paper Trails
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21310159 |
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| Authors | Malika Maskarinec (University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-135 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-0936 • E-ISSN: 2365-9521 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s41245-021-00125-7 |
| OpenAlex | W3129742264 |
| Language | EN |
This article takes up the concept of montage that has defined scholarship on Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz: Die Geschichte von Franz Biberkopf (1929) since its publication. Against interpretations that understand the novel’s technique of montage as related to film and the avant-garde, I show that the novel is more strongly tied to paper objects and practices, above all the nineteenth-century serial novel and its medial environment in the newspaper. Approaching the novel from this perspective directs attention – in opposition to the scholarship that has emphasized the experience of disruption produced by montage – to the significance of the plot and its highly gendered violence
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Media studies · Newspaper · Opposition (politics) · Perspective (graphical) · Plot (graphics) · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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