Baudelaire et la sacralité de la poésie / John E. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, John E., 1945- author.

Series:

Histoire des idées et critique littéraire ; v. 494.

Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 0073-2397 ; volume 494

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--Criticism and interpretation.

Baudelaire, Charles.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--Religion.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.

Religion.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

136 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Genève : Droz, [2018]

Summary:

Religion in the Fleurs du Mal, is not singular. It certainly exists, but only in a form that is multiple, varied and sometimes contradictory. In its religious attitudes the poetry of Baudelaire hesitates between contradictory postulations: a painful acceptance of suffering understood as an identification with the redemptive suffering of Christ contrasts with the corruption or parody of religious language, and the poems of the "Révolte" section which work to substitite the figure of Satan for that of Jesus co-exist with a tendency to exalt the idea of death or "the God of Utility". This book argues that once we have recognized the difficulty of defining some common denominator between these different tendencies we can see how the transcendence of the Other offers a poetic equivalent to divine transcendence and how the traditional religious liturgy is superseded by a poetic liturgy of union, which the text both expresses and creates.--Libraire Droz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9782600058735

2600058737

OCLC:

1034625982

Publisher Number:

9782600058735