The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City.
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2019.
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10361-127162019-09-30T05:53:16Z The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. Rowshon, Sabah Tasnia Azim, Firdous Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Exile Flâneur Marginality Historical consciousness Holocaust Cosmopolitanism Metropolis Postcolonial identity Race--Fiction. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2019. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-62). The concept of the urban explorer, the flâneur, is a nineteenth century phenomenon which has gone through major transformations in the last hundred years. Significantly, the flâneur is being revived and refashioned in many contemporary literatures with a view to explore the diverse elements of modern urban cosmopolitan space. My thesis explores the evolution of the concept of this urban explorer by unpacking the figure of the flâneur in Western literature, and illustrates how this modernist method is expounded by Charles Baudelaire, and later, by Walter Benjamin. The re-occurrence of flânerie in contemporary texts is critically explored in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City, the primary texts of my thesis. While critics have already established the relation between the flâneur and urban alienation as a modernist trope, the critical association between flânerie and issues of exile, dislocation and migration (voluntary or force) is yet to be established. Therefore, this dissertation aims to critically investigate the re-emergence of the flâneur in these primary texts through the lenses of exile and dislocation, and furthers the discussion by focusing on the representation of marginal spaces and marginalized subjects in the modern (cosmopolitan) nation-space; and, finally, through a critical reading of postcolonial theory it investigates the new wanderers‟ view of the peripheral spaces, histories and voices of modern nation. Sabah Tasnia Rowshon M.A. in English 2019-09-19T06:08:41Z 2019-09-19T06:08:41Z 2019 2019-08 Thesis ID 17363009 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/12716 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 62 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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Exile Flâneur Marginality Historical consciousness Holocaust Cosmopolitanism Metropolis Postcolonial identity Race--Fiction. Rowshon, Sabah Tasnia The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. |
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This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2019. |
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Azim, Firdous |
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Azim, Firdous Rowshon, Sabah Tasnia |
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The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. |
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The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. |
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The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. |
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The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. |
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The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City. |
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revival of the flâneur : analysing narratives of flânerie in w. g. sebald‟s austerlitz and teju cole‟s open city. |
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