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The Art of Taking a Walk : Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture by Anke Gleber; Project Muse is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Art of Taking a Walk : Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture about?
Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber 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. She sketch
Who reads The Art of Taking a Walk : Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Anke Gleber; Project Muse
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691218069
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- History, Art, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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