Le Flâneur Contemporain: The Wanderer in the 21st Century

Author(s)

Zachary KocandaFollow

Abstract

This creative project is a love letter to walking, poetry, and the French language. The flâneur is a French literary type, the most famous example being Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire epitomizes la modernité, writing poetry about urban Paris in the nineteenth century. The flâneur's importance as a literary type continues in contemporary poetry. Through fifteen prose poems, the project examines what it means to wander in the twenty-first century.

Department

Creative Writing

Major

Creative Writing

First Advisor

Theresa Williams

First Advisor Department

English

Second Advisor

Deborah Schocket

Second Advisor Department

Romance and Classical Studies

Publication Date

Spring 5-4-2015

Repository Citation

Kocanda, Zachary, "Le Flâneur Contemporain: The Wanderer in the 21st Century" (2015). Honors Projects. 196.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/196