{"product_id":"precarious-flanerie-and-the-ethics-of-the-self-in-contemporary-anglophone-fiction","title":"Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as \u003cem\u003econditio humana\u003c\/em\u003e, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s \u003cem\u003eSaturday,\u003c\/em\u003e Siri Hustvedt’s \u003cem\u003eThe Blindfold\u003c\/em\u003e, Teju Cole’s \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e, Dionne Brand’s \u003cem\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003c\/em\u003e and Robin Robertson’s \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly\u003c\/em\u003e, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. \u003cem\u003ePrecarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010850115928,"sku":null,"price":127.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110767476.jpg?v=1779520566","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/precarious-flanerie-and-the-ethics-of-the-self-in-contemporary-anglophone-fiction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}