pt. 1. Literature, culture, theory. Walking texts: toward a theory of literary flanerie ; The city of modernity: shifting perspectives, urban transitions ; Passages of flanerie: Kracauer and Benjamin -- pt. 2. Hessel in Berlin. The art of walking: reflections of Berlin ; Secret Berlin, a junk store of happiness ; Fragments of flanerie -- pt. 3. Flanerie and film. A short phenomenology of flanerie ; Flanerie, or the redemption of visual reality -- pt. 4. Female flanerie. Women on the screens and streets of modernity: in search of the female flaneur ; Weimar women, walkers, writers: Irmgard Keun and Charlotte Wolff
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