New directions in flânerie : global perspectives for the twenty-first century / edited by Kelly Comfort and Marylaura Papalas.
| Other author/creator | Comfort, Kelly, 1975- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Papalas, Marylaura, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2022 |
| Description | xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Routledge studies in comparative literature Routledge studies in comparative literature. ^A1334543 |
| Contents | Introduction: Tracing the geography, genius, and gender of flânerie / Kelly Comfort and Marylaura Papalas -- Necrophilic flânerie : collecting and urban walking in Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte / Tessa Ashlin Nunn -- Dystopian flânerie : the beauty of failure in Kafka's The trial and The castle / Josh Dawson -- Fashionable flânerie : walking women in interwar Vogue Paris / Marylaura Papalas -- Transformative flânerie : innovative reflections on metropolitan life in The New Yorker / Oliver Bock -- Uncivilized flânerie : the gaucho-flâneur in Jorge Luis Borges's "The South" / Kelly Comfort -- Cruising flânerie : homosexual urban desire in epistolary and autobiographical writings by Hernán Díaz Arrieta / Darío Sánchez González -- Space-clearing flânerie : remapping Hong Kong in Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas and My Little Airport's songs / Mei Mingxue Nan -- Virtual flânerie : gaming and video tourism in Paris, Bogotá, and La Habana / Osvaldo Cleger -- Vampiric flânerie : ridding badabad of badauds in Ana Lily Amirpour's A girl walks home alone at night / Jeremy Glazier -- Practicing flânerie : imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Shewane, South Africa / Lavinia Brydon, Bibi Burger, and Louis Rice. |
| Abstract | "This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the present"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781000482348 |
| Genre/form | essays. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| Genre/form | Essais. |
| LCCN | 2021027236 |
| ISBN | 9780367759483 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0367759489 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781032140469 paperback |
| ISBN | 1032140461 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40030966318 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN56.5.F53 N49 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |