Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction / / Eva Ries.
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 ethica...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 298 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 The Return of the Flâneur
- 2 Flânerie and its Discontents
- 3 Michel Foucault’s Ethics of the Self
- 4 Judith Butler’s Precarious Subjects
- 5 Synopsis: Ethical Subjects and the Flânerie Text
- 6 The End of Flânerie? The Sovereign Subject and Precarious City Life in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
- 7 Flânerie as Technique of the Self
- 8 City Matters: Affect and Media in Precarious Performances of Subjectivity
- 9 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index