Author Archive for: ‘Lisa Coulthard’

The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature and Film in Weimar Culture

Anke Gleber, The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature and Film in Weimar Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-691-00238-X 304pp. US$19.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Uploaded 12 November 1999 | 905 words The flaneur has been described as the quintessential figure of modernity, a figure linked to modernity’s changing modes of observation, subjectivity, spectatorship and …

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