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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"flâneur"”.
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The oriental flâneur : Khalil Bey and cosmopolitan experience
This thesis offers an account of the professional life and aesthetic pursuits of a remarkable figure of the nineteenth century: Khalil Bey, an Ottoman diplomat and art collector whose career took him from one cosmopolitan city to another. Although, his collection of French art has gotten …
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Home and away: The tourist, the flâneur and everyday life
… comparing and contrasting the tourist with the flâneur. The flâneur is regarded as a representative subjectivity of early modernity who developed visual and spatial practices, methodologies of movement and observation, which interpreted the city. The tourist's relationship with the global spaces …
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Efficient Travel for the Flâneur: Intermodal Station and Central Library for Ottawa
The proposed expansion and long-awaited light rail connection to the Ottawa Airport offers the opportunity to create a practical and symbolic transportation node within Canada’s capital city. Overlooking the Ottawa River, Bayview Station occupies an almost barren site, detached from its context …
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Beyond the Flâneur: Walking, Passage and Crossing in London and Paris in the Nineteenth Century
This thesis examines reworkings of the flâneur in France and Britain during the nineteenth century (1806-1869). It suggests that before it was made famous by Baudelaire, this urban observer emerged out of French and British print culture, and of crossings between them. It has endured because it is …
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Melancholia and Consciousness in Music, Art and Literature
… Faust during the Romantic period, next as a flâneur rising from the detritus of modernity, and finally as the melancholic automaton of the future. These figures are shaped by melancholic processes that are both constructive and destructive, and by the early twentieth century they follow the …
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Transmedia - a Place of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
… based on the dynamic concept of the ‘Walker’ or ‘Flâneur’ replacing single viewpoint categorization, a concept also to be applied to the reading of the Thesis itself. This is coupled with the concept of ‘thickening’ as proposed by Clifford Geertz with its implication of interaction between …
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The Marquis de Cuevas : pushing the boundaries of self
… how Cuevas inhabits the roles of dandy and flâneur in an attempt to fit in the modern urban context of Paris. Anxiety regarding the figure of the foreigner and social upstart is perceived in the arguable failure of Cuevas’s best-remembered social event, a grand costume ball that was to …
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Crafting Prose Poetry. A Comparative Study of Alfonsina Storni’s and José Ángel Valente’s Creative Journeys
… added to the notion of the poet, based on the flâneur figure, associated with the emergence of prose poetry. Storni became an underclass flâneuse poet, while Valente grew as a digger/diver poet, turning himself into a learner, attentive listener, scribe and witness of the poetic word. This …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
… and the act of watching, the figure of the flâneur, and the role of Nature and landscapes as subjects of narratives in their own right. I build a counterargument to more limiting views of the spectator’s experience by recognizing their role as an equal co-creator of meaning, along with the …
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Your place or mine? The love hotel as a post-domestic hyperreality
… on urban planning, comparing the practice of the Flâneur to the gay practice of Cruising. Next, I will use Bradley Rink's analysis of De Waterkant In Cape Town; “Village People”, as a spring board to discuss the commercialisation of sexuality and its dilution in the urban practice of Quartering, …