LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris
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Because of the advent of arcade projects
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Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape
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Because they were threatened by police with jail
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Detailed explanation-1: -Traditionally depicted as male, a flâneur is an ambivalent figure of urban affluence and modernity, representing the ability to wander detached from society with no other purpose than to be an acute observer of industrialized, contemporary life.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most French dictionaries don’t even include the word: Flâneuse-a noun, the feminine form of Flâneur. It means an idler, a dawdling observer, usually strolling through city streets. Someone who is never in a hurry and always with time for coffee.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Flaneur is an urban dweller, a wanderer and an observer of the flux in street life. A Flaneur walk the city in order to experience it. Benjamin wrote, “The street becomes the dwelling for the flaneur, he (she) is as much at home among the facades of houses as a citizen is in his four walls”
Detailed explanation-4: -French poet Charles Baudelaire recognized Poe’s “man of the crowd” as embodying a uniquely modern urban sensibility, and discussed this figure further in his 1863 book The Painter of Modern Life. Baudelaire referred to this figure as a “flâneur", which comes from the verb flâner meaning to stroll or saunter.