Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis - The Socio-Poetics of Modernism

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Poetics: 2. Correspondences versus beauty; 3. Spleen and evil; Part II. Psychopoetics: 4. Romantic temperament and 'Spleen and Ideal'; 5. Modernist imagination and the 'Tableaux Parisiens'; Part III. Sociopoetics: 6. Decoding and recoding in the prose poems; 7. The prose poem narrator; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary

This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of socioanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides an illuminating approach to Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene W. Holland
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521031349
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03134-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies