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In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. This work examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated.

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPt. 1Literature, Culture, TheoryCh. 1Walking Texts: Toward a Theory of Literary Flanerie3Ch. 2The City of Modernity: Shifting Perspectives, Urban Transitions23Ch. 3Passages of Flanerie: Kracauer and Benjamin43Pt. 2Hessel in BerlinCh. 4The Art of Walking: Reflections of Berlin63Ch. 5Secret Berlin, A Junk Store of Happiness85Ch. 6Fragments of Flanerie109Pt. 3Flanerie and FilmCh. 7A Short Phenomenology of Flanerie129Ch. 8Flanerie, or The Redemption of Visual Reality151Pt. 4Female FlanerieCh. 9Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur171Ch. 10Weimar Women, Walkers, Writers: Irmgard Keun and Charlotte Wolff191Notes215Bibliography265Index281

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 12/20/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780691002385
      978-0691002385
      ISBN-10 069100238X
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      Book Synopsis
      In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. This work examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated.

      Table of Contents
      PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPt. 1Literature, Culture, TheoryCh. 1Walking Texts: Toward a Theory of Literary Flanerie3Ch. 2The City of Modernity: Shifting Perspectives, Urban Transitions23Ch. 3Passages of Flanerie: Kracauer and Benjamin43Pt. 2Hessel in BerlinCh. 4The Art of Walking: Reflections of Berlin63Ch. 5Secret Berlin, A Junk Store of Happiness85Ch. 6Fragments of Flanerie109Pt. 3Flanerie and FilmCh. 7A Short Phenomenology of Flanerie129Ch. 8Flanerie, or The Redemption of Visual Reality151Pt. 4Female FlanerieCh. 9Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur171Ch. 10Weimar Women, Walkers, Writers: Irmgard Keun and Charlotte Wolff191Notes215Bibliography265Index281

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