Baudelaire and Le spleen de Paris / J.A. Hiddleston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiddleston, J. A. (James Andrew)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Spleen de Paris.

Baudelaire, Charles.

Physical Description:

vi, 124 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1986.

Summary:

The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's production. This book, the first study in English exclusively concerned with the prose poems, attempts to cast light on the uncertainty that surrounds all aspects of these texts. Emphasizing the importance of approaching them chronologically, it focuses principally on the position of the artist and his attitude towards his art, the often enigmatic and contradictory moral message the poems purport to convey, and above all on the relationship between prose and poetry in this hybrid and, by the poet's own admission, 'dangerous' genre.

Contents:

I Art and the Artist 1

II 'Une morale desagreable' 33

III The Poetry of Prose 62.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 117-120.

ISBN:

0198158394 :

0198158459

OCLC:

185063688