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literatura irlandesa contemporánea
flânerie
flaneuse
re-encantamiento
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Este artículo investiga la figura de la flâneuse metamoderna en Eggshells, de Caitriona Lally, proponiendo que la novela reinventa la experiencia urbana mediante una fusión de la tradición modernista, una imaginación romántica y la sensibilidad metamoderna. Narrada en estilo de flujo de conciencia, la historia sigue a Vivian, una mujer socialmente aislada que se considera una suplantadora, mientras deambula por el Dublín contemporáneo en busca de un portal hacia un mundo de hadas. Partiendo de la concepción del metamodernismo de James y Seshagiri (2014) como una reaproximación creativa a los legados modernistas, y de la relación que Vermeulen y van den Akker establecen entre la estructura del sentir metamoderna y la estética romántica (2010), este estudio recontextualiza a la protagonista de Lally dentro de un marco más amplio que entiende la flânerie como un modo singular de vincularse con la ciudad moderna. A través de un análisis textual detallado, el estudio muestra cómo Eggshells reconfigura la tradición del flâneur para representar un viaje psicológico de autodefinición que resiste el desencanto de la vida urbana racionalizada.
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