Awards

• Nominated for Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2015
• Nominated for Laura Shannon Prize 2017
• Nominated for Modernist Studies Association Book Prize 2016
• Nominated for René Wellek Prize 2016

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Buttressed by uncommon erudition and far-reaching interpretive insight throughout, the book proposes a critical taxonomy of [the] highly compressed, elliptical, largely urban form of writing, which was employed by luminaries ranging from Baudelaire, Rilke, and Kafka through Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, Louis Aragon, and Robert Musil and on to Adorno Never dull, frequently illuminating, and always elegant in its argumentation, Miniature Metropolis is apt to spark debate among scholars and to become a standard work in disciplines as diverse as media studies, urban studies, and comparative literature. Although some of the writers Huyssen addresses--the poet-physician Gottfried Benn, Ernst Junger, and others--may be fairly obscure to American readers, his approach offers ample rewards, and many new discoveries, to all who continue to take an interest in compressed forms of writing, those spiders webs that still hold us in their grip.--Noah Isenberg Bookforum (06/01/2015)

This is a unique, deeply thought, and important work that brings new insights into the literary forms of modernism, and their relations to other media.--Anthony Vidler, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union

Miniature Metropolis provides a methodology for others who wish to consider the seemingly incidental writings of Modernists that have so often been eclipsed by less modest parts of their oeuvres. With original arguments and meticulous analyses, this fine study deepens our knowledge of familiar authors, and through the light it casts on its subject, it also brings into focus the current challenges to the literary mode posed by digital media and new related social practices.--Elaine Morley Times Literary Supplement (01/08/2016)

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Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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