Understanding Les fleurs du mal : critical readings / edited by William J. Thompson ; foreword by Claude Pichois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, William J., 1961-

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Fleurs du mal.

Baudelaire, Charles.

Physical Description:

xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Fleurs du mal

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [1997]

Summary:

Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaires collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.

Contents:

Mimesis and the grotesque in "L'albatros" / Susan Blood

Baudelaire's "La vie antérieure" / Nina Tucci

"La géante" : feminine proportions and lyric subjectivity / Gretchen Schultz

"Parfum exotique" / Jeanne Theis Whitaker

Immortal rot : a reading of "Une charogne" / William Olmsted

"Le balcon" : the poetics of nocturnal and diurnal imagery / Claudine Giacchetti

"Tout entière" : a mystifying totality / Eliane DalMolin

Fur in my brain : "Le chat" / Margaret Miner

"L'invitation au voyage" / Karen Harrington

"Le cygne" of Baudelaire / Gérard Gasarian

The role of structural analysis : "Les sept vieillards" / Marie Maclean

Order and chaos in "A une passante" / William Thompson

Profaned memory : a Proustian reading of Baudelaire's "Je n'ai pas oublié ..." / Brigitte Mahuzier

Recycling the ragpicker : "Le vin des chiffonniers" / Ross Chambers

Myth, metaphor, and music in "Le voyage" / Walter Putnam

Poet, painter, lover : a reading of "Les bijoux" / Richard D.E. Burton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.

ISBN:

0826512909

0826512976

OCLC:

36430602