Grotesque Figures - Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Virginia E. Swain is professor of French at Dartmouth College. Klappentext Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet! whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In "Grotesque Figures!" Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not only do Rousseau's ideas inform Baudelaire's theory of the grotesque! but Rousseau makes numerous appearances in Baudelaire's poetry as a caricature or type representing the hold of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution over Baudelaire and his contemporaries. As a character in ""Le Pome du hashisch"" and the "Petits Pomes en prose!" "Rousseau" gives the grotesque a human form. Swain's literary! cultural! and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century! "Grotesque Figures" examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity! Rousseau's political and artistic legacy! the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo! and the presence of the grotesque in the modern. Zusammenfassung Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Virginia E Swain, Virginia E. Swain, Virginia E. (Associate Professor of French Swain
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen G. Nichols (Editore), Gerald Prince (Editore)
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.12.2004
• EAN: 9780801879456
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7945-6
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 171 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Parallax: Re-Visions Fo Cultur; Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society; Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets