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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2021-09-16
- ISBN
- 9780192843319
- Book Title
- Beauty of Baudelaire : the Poet As Alternative Lawgiver
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 38.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 656 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192843311
ISBN-13
9780192843319
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14050023881
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beauty of Baudelaire : the Poet As Alternative Lawgiver
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
General
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
38.9 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"This remarkable book provides a new and detailed reading of the entire corpus of Baudelaire (1821-67): Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris, and his critical essays on literature and the creative arts. It is an invitation to return to the text, to discover or rediscover a writer too often categorized as an apolitical dandy burdened by melancholia and dedicated to the pursuit of art for art's sake." -- C. B. Kerr, CHOICE"This may be the modern Baudelaire book we all need- it navigates a summary of the writing about and thinking on Baudelaire, while offering an up-to-date vision of Baudelaire's poeisis." -- Helen Abbott, Nineteenth Century French Studies, This remarkable book provides a new and detailed reading of the entire corpus of Baudelaire (1821-67): Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris, and his critical essays on literature and the creative arts. It is an invitation to return to the text, to discover or rediscover a writer too often categorized as an apolitical dandy burdened by melancholia and dedicated to the pursuit of art for art's sake., "This remarkable book provides a new and detailed reading of the entire corpus of Baudelaire (1821-67): Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris, and his critical essays on literature and the creative arts. It is an invitation to return to the text, to discover or rediscover a writer too often categorized as an apolitical dandy burdened by melancholia and dedicated to the pursuit of art for art's sake." -- C. B. Kerr, CHOICE
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
841.8
Table Of Content
PrefaceIntroduction: An Unacknowledged Legislator?PART I RESISTANCE1. The Poet of Resistance2. The Poet-Artist as Double Agent3. The Poet-Artist as PerformerPART II MELANCHOLY4. Melancholy and Baudelaire5. Melancholy and Satan6. Lesbos and Limbo: Towards Les Fleurs du Mal7. The Beauty of Ill-Being: From Sappho to Satan8. Les Fleurs du Mal (1857/1861): New Beginnings9. Les Fleurs du Mal (1857/1861): New Endings10. Melancholy and the Poetic Act: Decomposition and CompositionPART III IMAGINATION11. Imagination and Resistance: The Case of Poe12. The Government of the Imagination: The Salon de 185913. Imagination and Conjecture: Gautier and Hugo14. Imagination and Suggestion: Wagner, Guys, DelacroixPART IV POETRY IN VERSE15. The Poetry of Passion: Sex, Beauty, and Verse16. The Performance of Melancholy: The Duel and the Waltz17. Versification and the Poetic Idea18. Poetry in the City: Melancholy and Time in 'Tableaux parisiens'19. The Poet and the City: The Seer as Sightseer in 'Tableaux parisiens'PART V PROSE POETRY20. The Inauguration of the Prose Poem21. Prose Poetry and the Press: The Poetics of Resistance22. The Question of Intent: Mystification and Perplexity23. The Voice of the Stranger: Reality and Imagination24. The Poet in the World: Empathy and Performance25. The Beauty of the Prose PoemConclusion: Beauty and the Poet as Alternative Lawgiver
Synopsis
A substantial study of the works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) that provides fresh and detailed readings of his poetry in verse and prose., This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris . It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire's reputation as the 'father' of modern poetry. Whereas he is traditionally considered to have rejected the public role of the writer as moralist, educator, and political leader and to have dedicated himself instead to the exclusive pursuit of beauty in art, this book contends not only that he rejected Art for Art's sake but that he saw in 'beauty'--defined not as an inherent quality but as an effect of harmony and rich conjecture--an alternative ethos with which to resist the tyrannies of ideology and conformism. Contrarian in his thinking and provocatively innovative in his poetic practice, Baudelaire fell foul of the law when six poems in Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) were banned for obscenity. In the second edition (1861), substantially recast and enlarged, the poet as alternative lawgiver made plainer still his resistance to the orthodoxies of his day. In a series of major critical articles he proclaimed the 'government of the imagination', while from 1855 until his death he developed an alternative literary form, the prose poem--a thing of beauty and an invitation to imagine the world afresh, to make our own rules., This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris. It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire's reputation as the 'father' of modern poetry. Whereas he is traditionally considered to have rejected the public role of the writer as moralist, educator, and political leader and to have dedicated himself instead to the exclusive pursuit of beauty in art, this book contends not only that he rejected Art for Art's sake but that he saw in 'beauty' - defined not as an inherent quality but as an effect of harmony and rich conjecture - an alternative ethos with which to resist the tyrannies of ideology and conformism. Contrarian in his thinking and provocatively innovative in his poetic practice, Baudelaire fell foul of the law when six poems in Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) were banned for obscenity. In the second edition (1861), substantially recast and enlarged, the poet as alternative lawgiver made plainer still his resistance to the orthodoxies of his day. In a series of major critical articles he proclaimed the 'government of the imagination', while from 1855 until his death he developed an alternative literary form, the prose poem--a thing of beauty and an invitation to imagine the world afresh, to make our own rules., This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris. It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire's reputation as the 'father' of modern poetry. Whereas he is traditionally considered to have rejected the public role of the writer as moralist, educator, and political leader and to have dedicated himself instead to the exclusive pursuit of beauty in art, this book contends not only that he rejected Art for Art's sake but that he saw in 'beauty'--defined not as an inherent quality but as an effect of harmony and rich conjecture--an alternative ethos with which to resist the tyrannies of ideology and conformism. Contrarian in his thinking and provocatively innovative in his poetic practice, Baudelaire fell foul of the law when six poems in Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) were banned for obscenity. In the second edition (1861), substantially recast and enlarged, the poet as alternative lawgiver made plainer still his resistance to the orthodoxies of his day. In a series of major critical articles he proclaimed the 'government of the imagination', while from 1855 until his death he developed an alternative literary form, the prose poem--a thing of beauty and an invitation to imagine the world afresh, to make our own rules.
LC Classification Number
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- a***a (419)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThis 2DVD set is in perfect condition. Cover art and case like new. Both DVDs played with no flaws. Description was listed as “Good”; I would describe it as “Very Good”, basically Like New. Delivery was super fast and packaging was excellent. The DVD case was wrapped well, then put in a cardboard envelope that was sturdy and hard to open (this is NOT a negative!). I have purchased from this company a few times and have always been very satisfied. Prices are great.