The diseased city - Images of the body in expressionist and futurist poetry

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 70 (1), University of Cambridge (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), course: The City, language: English, abstract: Where the Futurist’s City Symphony is a celebration of ‘the Joy of Mechanical Force’, the Expressionist’s is dark and apocalyptic. Cities in this poetry are centres of disease and d...