Reading Baudelaire's le Spleen de Paris and the nineteenth-century prose poem / Seth Whidden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whidden, Seth, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, French--19th century--Biography.

Poets, French.

French poetry.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.

Baudelaire, Charles.

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

Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire, Charles).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English text. Includes quotations in French from Baudelaire and others with English translation.

Summary:

Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors that helped shape the nascent modernity in Baudelaire's poetic prose are the poems' themes, forms, linguistic qualities, and modes. The contradictions identifiable at the level of prose poetry's discourse are similarly perceptible in other aspects of Baudelaire's poetic language, beyond the discursive: in the poems' formal considerations, which retain recognisable traces of verse despite their prose presentation; and, with respect to both poetic form and thematics, in the sights and sounds that contribute to their poeticity.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on May 03, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-266687-8

0-19-194503-X

0-19-266686-X

OCLC:

1328136294