Baudelaire and Intertextuality - Poetry At the Crossroads

Klappentext In this new reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's text serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the novel and the moral fable. Zusammenfassung In this 1993 reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's text serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the novel and the moral fable. She shows how the text probes the fundamental tension between individuality and conformity! powerfully symbolized by the giant metropolis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The city; 2. Exchange codes; 3. Poetry and desire; 4. Unsententious moralities; 5. Poetry and madness; 6. Poetic cookery; 7. The poet as savage: rewriting cliché; 8. Musicality; 9. Straight lines and arabesques; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Margery A. Evans, Evans Margery a.
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025591
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02559-1
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies