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1	Irgendwo muss man doch einmal hingehoeren': Irmgard Keun as Heiress to the Flaneur." Embley, Matthew D. 22 March 2006 (has links) (PDF) Flanerie is the art of taking a walk, leisurely observing the movements and spaces of the city. By writing about cityscapes, urban realms, and the condition of society, flaneurs are able to describe the uniqueness of the metropolis and give life to the modern city—creating a photograph of an urban setting. In the early nineteenth century, and even today, flaneur literature has been ultimately dominated by men who have documented their cultural and aesthetic interactions with the city. During these times, unwritten rules have often excluded the female from participating in parts of the urban society. Today, these unwritten rules are still apparent as many park signs warn us to stay out of secluded areas after dark—implying the possibility of danger for women, but no necessarily for men. The controversy over the existence of the flaneuse or female flaneur has been the corner stone of many recent debates as a large body of scholarship has claimed that women have had no part in the art of flanerie. The questions still remain: was it possible for women to promenade in the streets of a male-dominated society and is it possible that female flaneur literature even exists? My answer to these questions is yes. Although the public sphere was dominated by the male figure as they confined women to the private realm of the home, there were notable women who proved to be exceptions to these rules. Recently, scholars have uncovered an array of female authors that have written in the art of flanerie. Irmgard Keun was one of the prominent exceptions who wrote many texts that are potentially important as cultural and historical documents of the time period in which she lived. In this thesis, I will investigate Keun's first two novels, Gilig—eine von uns and Das kunstseidene Madchen, as well as a few of her lesser known feuilletons that have scarcely been observed or considered as essential links to the rare works of the female flaneur. I will first discuss the problems of the flaneuse—being subjected to gender-stratified societies, being seen as a prostitute, and being confined to the private realm of the home. I will then argue several aspects of Keun's novels and feuilletons that are necessary to understand the practices of the modern flaneur and, more importantly, to liberate the controversial figure of the flaneuse. flaneur flaneuse Irmgard Keun flanerie Berlin city German German Language and Literature Slavic Languages and Societies
2	Grace Before the Fall Lipschultz, Geri 25 July 2012 (has links) No description available. Literature fiction novel flaneuse activism annotations hybridity magic realism ecofeminism pre 9/11 NYC endnotes
3	Her Name is Blood: Situating Gertrude Blood Within the Flaneuse, and Walking Virtually Gallion, Alexis Ryan Marie 18 May 2021 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature European Studies Gender History Journalism Flaneur flaneuse flanerie walking uncommercial traveller traveling marxist-feminist marxist-feminist critique Gertrude Elizabeth Blood Gertrude Blood Lady Colin Campbell journalism capitalism patriarchy hegemony patriarchal-capitalism
4	Hermine Cloeter, Feuilletons, and Vienna: A Flaneuse and Urban Cultural Archaeologist Wandering Through Opaque Spaces, Bridging Past and Present to Reclaim What Could Be Lost Barbour, Kelli D. 17 July 2004 (has links) (PDF) Despite the authority that time holds in the discipline of studying events of the past, not all historians or writers analyzing the past use time to study history—some use space, including writers who write about and interact with an urban topography. The space used by these writers is built space, as well as inhabited and practiced "lived" space. Whereas time provides a transparent overview of history, the urban spaces tend to be opaque. Clarifying history through urban space is additionally troublesome, because built space and its attached memories are visibly forgotten and ignored as time advances. Despite the difficulties of working with and understanding urban space, some intellectuals specifically choose space as a tool of discernment of history. For these individuals, understanding history becomes an investigation of sensing, feeling, and divining human activity out of the mass of artifacts and used spaces. Hermine Cloeter is one such urban forensic historian. Hermine Cloeter Cloeter hermeneutics spatial practices flanuer flaneuse female flaneur Vienna Wien obscurity illegibility hybridity Zwischen Gestern und Heute Durch die engste Gasse von Wien feuilleton journalists female journalist Essayistinin Feuilletonistinnen Wanderungen Spaziergehen walking Franz Hessel Walter Benjamin Neue Freie Presse Austria memories urban hermeneutics urban exegesis urban forensics cultural archaeology urban cultural archaeology bridges German Language and Literature Slavic Languages and Societies

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