Reading Baudelaire's Le spleen de Paris and the nineteenth-century prose poem /
A study of Charles Baudelaire's Le spleen de Paris (1859) that explores how the practice of reading prose poems might be different from reading poetry in verse, illustrating how Baudelaire wrote texts that he considered poems and how this form shows aspects of his poetic modernity.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | English text. Includes quotations in French from Baudelaire and others with English translation. |
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Introduction: The Miracle of Prose Poetry
- The Miracle of Poetic Prose
- The Look of Modern Poetry
- Situation of the Prose Poem: Seeing and Hearing
- Between Verse and Prose
- 1. Seeing Things in Poetry
- The Eyes Have It
- Seeing Time, Telling Time
- 2. Speech Interrupting Poetic Prose
- When the Eyes Don't Have It
- Saying and Doing
- Repeating (One's) Self
- Final Words
- 3. The Dialect of Modernity
- What Else is Heard
- Stealing Signs
- 4. Inebriations and Irritations
- Going Beyond
- Distractions
- Epilogue: The Prose Poem after Le Spleen de Paris
- "Inspecter l'invisible et entendre l'inouï"
- Coda: "où la prose décolle"
- Bibliography
- Index
- General Index.