How Long to Read Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries

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Description

Even 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 conditio humana, 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 Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Teju Cole’s Open City, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, 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. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.

How long is Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction?

Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction?

Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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