Urban walking : the flâneur as an icon of metropolitan culture in literature and film
Oliver Bock (Editor), Isabel Vila-Cabanes (Editor)
"The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flâneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flânerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flânerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flânerie's theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flânerie as an important aspect of urban culture." -- From publisher's website
xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9781648890949, 1648890946
1203961600
Precarious flânerie: towards the formation of an ethical subject / Eva Katharina Ries
To be and not to be a ghost: revenance as a literary means in Peter Kurzeck's Das schwarze Buch and Übers Eis / Lea Herrmann
The Bohemian and the flâneur: two complementary terms of a life-style design: reflections on the role of (sub)cultural outsiders in Scandinavian art and literature in the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century / Knut Brynhildsvoll
Remapping late nineteenth-century London: Arthur Machen's Dyson mysteries and the "Art of London" / Isabel Vila-Cabanes
Urban abstraction in literary modernism: Virginia Woolf's street-haunting adventures / Cristina Carluccio
The self and the city in Philippe Delerm's novel Quelque chose en lui de Bartleby (2009) / Ina Schabert
The sound of silent memories: negotiating cultural memory through urban noise in Teju Cole's Open City / by Daniel Chukwuemeka
Uncovering the nocturnal street: João de Rio and the crônica in Brazil / Ana Paula Cardozo de Souza
The dreams of Shanghai: on the mental life of the city in Mu Shiying's short stories / Farida Youssef
Challenging and reconfiguring flânerie in fictions of contemporary Indian metropolises / Cecile Sandten
Roaming the streets: US neo-avant-garde cinema and urban transformation / Berit Hummel
To catch things in flight: Zygmunt Bauman's flâneur and the Passengers' statu viatoris / Viorella Manolache