Untimely beggar : poverty and power from Baudelaire to Benjamin / Patrick Greaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greaney, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

European literature--19th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin's final texts in the 1930's, Untimely Beggar investigates the coincidence of two modern literary and philosophical interests: representing the poor and representing potential. In doing so, Patrick Greaney offers significant insights into modernity's intense philosophical and literary interest in socioeconomic poverty.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Beggar and the Promised Land of Cannibalism; 1. Impoverished Power; 2. Let's Get Beat Up by the Poor!; 3. Poetic Rebellion in Mallarmé; 4. The Transvaluation of Poverty; 5. Rilke and the Aestheticization of Poverty; 6. An Outcast Community; 7. Exposed Interiors and the Poverty of Experience; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5391-7

OCLC:

476125752