Sentences with phrase «archetypal figure who»

Here, Bradley refers to to Walter Benjamin's conception of the flâneur, Baudelaire's archetypal figure who strolls through the modern city.

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The film plays Daniel cleverly, pitching him initially as a solitary figure in his cold - seeming apartment; but a single artfully placed glimpse of a dinner party shows that he isn't the archetypal lonely man of urban drama, but someone who chooses for himself when he gets to spend time apart from others.

Brauen's grandmother, a Buddhist nun, is a figure of archetypal stature who anchors the family during the tumultuous 20th Century and beyond, from the homeland bravely onward into exile (Michael F).

The idea of the flâneur — or wanderer — came to us first by way of Edgar Allen Poe, who introduced the archetypal figure in his 1840 story «The Man of the Crowd.»