This thesis project aims to explore the re-semanticization of the nineteenth-century figure of the flâneur, through the works of Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walter Benjamin, within the dystopian literature of Philip K. Dick, focusing specifically on the novels Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly. The primary objective is to analyze how the traditional detached observer of the modern metropolis is transformed, within the postmodern and technological scenario described by the author, into a fragmented, alienated subject, perpetually threatened by the loss of their own identity
Il presente lavoro di tesi si propone di esplorare la risemantizzazione della figura ottocentesca del flâneur, tramite i testi di Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe e Walter Benjamin, all'interno della letteratura distopica di Philip K. Dick, focalizzandosi in particolare sulle opere Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? e A Scanner Darkly. L'obiettivo principale è analizzare come il tradizionale osservatore distaccato della metropoli moderna si trasformi, nello scenario postmoderno e tecnologico descritto dall'autore, in un soggetto frammentato, alienato e perennemente minacciato dalla perdita della propria identità.
Derive distopiche: la reinterpretazione del flâneur e del non-luogo nella narrativa di Philip K. Dick.
PITETTI, LORENZO
2025/2026
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This thesis project aims to explore the re-semanticization of the nineteenth-century figure of the flâneur, through the works of Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walter Benjamin, within the dystopian literature of Philip K. Dick, focusing specifically on the novels Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly. The primary objective is to analyze how the traditional detached observer of the modern metropolis is transformed, within the postmodern and technological scenario described by the author, into a fragmented, alienated subject, perpetually threatened by the loss of their own identity| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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