Baudelaire and Intertextuality
Poetry at the Crossroads
Part of Cambridge Studies in French
- Author: Margery A. Evans, University of Warwick
- Date Published: April 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025591
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available on inspection
-
This 1993 reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris is a response to Baudelaire's own challenge to read his text as one in which 'everything ... is head and tail, alternately and reciprocally'. Margery Evans proposes that Le Spleen de Paris serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the unitary narrator, the extended plot, and the artifice of beginnings and endings. She shows how Baudelaire's text probes the relationship between individuality and conformity to pre-existing codes, both in literature and in the world, and how the giant metropolis provides a symbol of that drama. Dr Evans explores the interconnections between the prose poems which make up Le Spleen de Paris and their intertextual relations with other, mostly prose, works, and argues that this anomalous, hybrid work raises far-reaching questions of relevance to narratology and to literary theory as a whole.
Read more- New, close reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
- Shows how Baudelaire's poetry raises far-reaching questions of relevance to narratology and literary theory
- Situates the analysis of the poems within a comparative framework, exploring the intertextual relations with other, mostly prose, works
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: April 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025591
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email [email protected]
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×