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American Flaneur
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Author : James Werner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-04-15
American Flaneur written by James Werner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - suggested in Walter Benjamin's discussion of Baudelaire. This study illustrates the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims, and uses the flaneur to illuminate Poe's intimate yet ambivalent relationship to his surrounding culture. While James V. Werner concentrates on Poe's fiction, this book treats many areas of nineteenth-century intellectual and popular culture, including science and pseudo-science, the American magazine marketplace, urban topology, the grotesque, labyrinths, narratives of exploration and discovery, and cosmological treatises. Werner draws on Marxist, reader response and periodical theories while reconstructing Poe through examinations of ephemeral texts of the time.
American Flaneur
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Author : James Werner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-04-15
American Flaneur written by James Werner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - suggested in Walter Benjamin's discussion of Baudelaire. This study illustrates the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims, and uses the flaneur to illuminate Poe's intimate yet ambivalent relationship to his surrounding culture. While James V. Werner concentrates on Poe's fiction, this book treats many areas of nineteenth-century intellectual and popular culture, including science and pseudo-science, the American magazine marketplace, urban topology, the grotesque, labyrinths, narratives of exploration and discovery, and cosmological treatises. Werner draws on Marxist, reader response and periodical theories while reconstructing Poe through examinations of ephemeral texts of the time.
An American Fl Neur In Berlin
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Author : David Tuffley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-20
An American Fl Neur In Berlin written by David Tuffley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-20 with Fiction categories.
An American Flaneur in Berlin is the stream of consciousness account of Gabi Hartmann's fictional visit to Berlin in the late Winter of 2018. While this is her first trip abroad, she feels a connection with that part of the world and wants to find out what that means. Her ancestors worked the land for centuries on farms outside of Eberswalde, a town 50 kilometers North-East of Berlin. Arrival. As the last passenger disappears up the stairs, Gabi stands on the silent platform. In the half light, she sees the walls and columns are clad in red marble. It's more like the arrival hall of a palace than a subway station. She takes a deep breath, feeling this is the actual moment of arrival in Berlin. She revels in this feeling not only because it is a goal reached, but because behind the silence she senses something intriguing. A distant resonance more felt than heard, like thunder from over the horizon. Now down the street she goes, looking for the hotel. Passing by an ordinary looking car park, there is a discrete sign saying that this here is the site of the now destroyed Führerbunker, Hitler's command post. A tour group is nearby. The guide is saying that in the final weeks of the war over a million Soviet soldiers had surrounded Berlin, and were converging on this very spot. Behind them nothing but scorched earth. And what's that the guide is saying about the marble in the subway? Apparently, it is from the arrival hall of the now destroyed Reichskanzlei, Hitler's Chancellery that had also stood here, now obliterated. She is beginning to appreciate the significance of this place she had come to; once the eye of a catastrophic hurricane in human affairs, surely one of the worst of the 20th Century. And the echoes of that still reverberate.
American Flaneur
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Author : James V. Werner
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
American Flaneur written by James V. Werner and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates "Gypsy music" as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. David Malvinni studies specific composers-including Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Janacek, and Bartók-whose work takes up contested and varied configurations of Gypsy music. The music of these composers is considered alongside contemporary debates over popular music and film, as Malvinni argues that Gypsiness remains impervious to empirical revelations about the "real" Roma.
The Flaneur
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Author : Edmund White
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-20
The Flaneur written by Edmund White and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris.
The Spectator And The City In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Author : Dana Brand
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1991-10-25
The Spectator And The City In Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Dana Brand and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.
Urban Walking The Fl Neur As An Icon Of Metropolitan Culture In Literature And Film
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Author : Isabel Vila-Cabanes
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
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Urban Walking The Fl Neur As An Icon Of Metropolitan Culture In Literature And Film written by Isabel Vila-Cabanes and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Precarious Fl Nerie And The Ethics Of The Self In Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
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Author : Eva Ries
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Precarious Fl Nerie And The Ethics Of The Self In Contemporary Anglophone Fiction written by Eva Ries and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Teju Cole’s Open City, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.
The Discourse Of Flanerie In Antonio Mu Oz Molina S Texts
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Author : Richard Sperber
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-10
The Discourse Of Flanerie In Antonio Mu Oz Molina S Texts written by Richard Sperber and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin have shown that flanerie is anything but an aimless stroll. Walking through London, Paris, and Berlin entailed engagements with the latest modernity. Thought-provoking, exhilarating, and at times terrifying: flanerie adjusted to and documented the mobility of modernity, its aesthetic possibilities and social risks. Antonio Muñoz Molina is one of several contemporary authors who have closely coupled the development of their literary characters to urban perambulations. Their biographic growth, cultural and social adaptations, as well as epistemological insights are so dependent on flanerie that his late twentieth and early twenty-first-century texts warrant the designation flaneur literature. Muñoz Molina has also contributed to the current decentralization of flaneur literature from Paris to smaller cities, including Spanish cities like Granada, Córdoba, and San Sebastián. Reflecting on Poe, Baudelaire, and Benjamin in these cities, his characters update and revise the canon of flaneur literature, stretching its discursive boundaries. This study examines not only the mobility of his characters but also draws attention to intercultural aspects of his flaneur literature which lie both in a uniquely Spanish perspective on flanerie as well as in engagements with cultural otherness. Walking through a Moroccan city or through Chinatown in New York, Muñoz Molina’s characters broaden the Eurocentric horizon of canonical flaneur literature and the modernist one of his Spanish flaneur precursor, Federico García Lorca, whose portrait of New York is revisited in Muñoz Molina’s longest flaneur text. National and literary boundaries blur as intercultural urban spaces transform his characters into transnational subjects. This study traces the author’s struggle with this globalization: a residual rural nostalgia straddles uneasily with forays into filmic flanerie, a form of spectatorship that renders the flaneur newly mobile in the mass-mediatized environments of postmodernity. If Muñoz Molina is generally regarded as an incisive chronicler of Spain’s transition from Francoism to democracy and an attentive memorialist of the Spanish Civil War, this study bases its portrait of a much more globally engaged Muñoz Molina in his characters’ movements from Spain into the urban centers of Euro-American postmodernity and its northern African periphery.
The Routledge Companion To Gender Sex And Latin American Culture
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Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-24
The Routledge Companion To Gender Sex And Latin American Culture written by Frederick Luis Aldama and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-24 with Social Science categories.
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical, social, cultural, and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas, and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies, whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are "othered", as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can, and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics covered in this volume include TV, film, pop and performance art, hip-hop, dance, slam poetry, gender-fluid religious ritual, theater, stand-up comedy, graffiti, videogames, photography, graphic arts, sports spectacles, comic books, sci-fi and other genre novels, lotería card games, news, web, and digital media.