Precarious flânerie and the ethics of the self in contemporary anglophone fiction / Eva Ries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ries, Eva, author.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Volume 76.

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Volume 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Ethics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 The Return of the Flâneur

2 Flânerie and its Discontents

3 Michel Foucault’s Ethics of the Self

4 Judith Butler’s Precarious Subjects

5 Synopsis: Ethical Subjects and the Flânerie Text

6 The End of Flânerie? The Sovereign Subject and Precarious City Life in Ian McEwan’s Saturday

7 Flânerie as Technique of the Self

8 City Matters: Affect and Media in Precarious Performances of Subjectivity

9 Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-076749-X