Author: James R. Lawler
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Baudelaire ascribed exceptional importance to the arrangement of Les Fleurs du mal. His book, he said, constituted "a perfect whole," which he had arranged according to a preconceived plan. One of his earliest readers, the novelist and critic Barbey d'Aurevilly, spoke of a "secret architecture" and "a plan calculated by the solitary meditative poet," though he did not go into details; and ever since, scholars have pursued the question of structure. This new study offers an exciting reading of the 127 poems of the second edition (1861), which shows that, beyond the meanings of its individual poems, the collection has a sense that we ignore at substantial cost. The author presents a precise dialectical method, a "somber and limpid tete-a-tete" of the poet with himself. The argument is pursued between the poems, which ask to be read with and against each other.
Poetry and Moral Dialectic
Author: James R. Lawler
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Baudelaire ascribed exceptional importance to the arrangement of Les Fleurs du mal. His book, he said, constituted "a perfect whole," which he had arranged according to a preconceived plan. One of his earliest readers, the novelist and critic Barbey d'Aurevilly, spoke of a "secret architecture" and "a plan calculated by the solitary meditative poet," though he did not go into details; and ever since, scholars have pursued the question of structure. This new study offers an exciting reading of the 127 poems of the second edition (1861), which shows that, beyond the meanings of its individual poems, the collection has a sense that we ignore at substantial cost. The author presents a precise dialectical method, a "somber and limpid tete-a-tete" of the poet with himself. The argument is pursued between the poems, which ask to be read with and against each other.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Baudelaire ascribed exceptional importance to the arrangement of Les Fleurs du mal. His book, he said, constituted "a perfect whole," which he had arranged according to a preconceived plan. One of his earliest readers, the novelist and critic Barbey d'Aurevilly, spoke of a "secret architecture" and "a plan calculated by the solitary meditative poet," though he did not go into details; and ever since, scholars have pursued the question of structure. This new study offers an exciting reading of the 127 poems of the second edition (1861), which shows that, beyond the meanings of its individual poems, the collection has a sense that we ignore at substantial cost. The author presents a precise dialectical method, a "somber and limpid tete-a-tete" of the poet with himself. The argument is pursued between the poems, which ask to be read with and against each other.
Dialectics of Spontaneity
Author: Zhiyi Yang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004298533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004298533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song.
The Poetry of T.S. Eliot
Author: B.M. Mishra
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788126901944
Category : Philosophy, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Poetry Of T.S. Eliot Is An Incisive Interpretation Of Eliot S Poetry In The Indian Context Vis-A-Vis The Views Of Western Critics In So Far As The Christian Coloration Of His Poetry Is Concerned. A Good Deal Of Light Is Thrown On The Early, Middle And Later Poetry Of Eliot. A Special Emphasis Has Been Laid On The Genesis And Culminating Experience Of Eliot As A Man And As An Artist.
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788126901944
Category : Philosophy, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Poetry Of T.S. Eliot Is An Incisive Interpretation Of Eliot S Poetry In The Indian Context Vis-A-Vis The Views Of Western Critics In So Far As The Christian Coloration Of His Poetry Is Concerned. A Good Deal Of Light Is Thrown On The Early, Middle And Later Poetry Of Eliot. A Special Emphasis Has Been Laid On The Genesis And Culminating Experience Of Eliot As A Man And As An Artist.
Thinking Poetry
Author: J. Acquisto
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137329289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137329289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.
The Ethics of Romanticism
Author: Laurence S. Lockridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521352568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521352568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.
Poetics en passant
Author: A. Jamison
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Poetics en Passant presents a 'cross-channel' poetics that redefines the relationship between 'Victorian' and 'modern' poetry by understanding Christina Rossetti's poetics of 'stealth' as an important counterpart to Baudelairean 'shock.'
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Poetics en Passant presents a 'cross-channel' poetics that redefines the relationship between 'Victorian' and 'modern' poetry by understanding Christina Rossetti's poetics of 'stealth' as an important counterpart to Baudelairean 'shock.'
Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Elizabeth Robinson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315463407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book examines the influence of Hume, Reid, Smith, Hutcheson, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. It begins with the influence of these thinkers on Kant, then moves to an examination of the relationship between truth, freedom, and responsibility and its connection to Kant’s metaphysics and aesthetics.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315463407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book examines the influence of Hume, Reid, Smith, Hutcheson, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. It begins with the influence of these thinkers on Kant, then moves to an examination of the relationship between truth, freedom, and responsibility and its connection to Kant’s metaphysics and aesthetics.
Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Prose Poems
Author: Cheryl Krueger
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 160329273X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (Les Fleurs du Mal [Flowers of Evil]) and prose poems (Le Spleen de Paris [Paris Spleen]). This volume explores his prose poems, which depict Paris during the Second Empire and offer compelling and fraught representations of urban expansion, social change, and modernity. Part 1, "Materials," surveys the valuable resources available for teaching Baudelaire, including editions and translations of his oeuvre, historical accounts of his life and writing, scholarly works, and online databases. In Part 2, "Approaches," experienced instructors present strategies for teaching critical debates on Baudelaire's prose poems, addressing topics such as translation theory, literary genre, alterity, poetics, narrative theory, and ethics as well as the shifting social, economic, and political terrain of the nineteenth century in France and beyond. The essays offer interdisciplinary connections and outline traditional and fresh approaches for teaching Baudelaire's prose poems in a wide range of classroom contexts.
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 160329273X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (Les Fleurs du Mal [Flowers of Evil]) and prose poems (Le Spleen de Paris [Paris Spleen]). This volume explores his prose poems, which depict Paris during the Second Empire and offer compelling and fraught representations of urban expansion, social change, and modernity. Part 1, "Materials," surveys the valuable resources available for teaching Baudelaire, including editions and translations of his oeuvre, historical accounts of his life and writing, scholarly works, and online databases. In Part 2, "Approaches," experienced instructors present strategies for teaching critical debates on Baudelaire's prose poems, addressing topics such as translation theory, literary genre, alterity, poetics, narrative theory, and ethics as well as the shifting social, economic, and political terrain of the nineteenth century in France and beyond. The essays offer interdisciplinary connections and outline traditional and fresh approaches for teaching Baudelaire's prose poems in a wide range of classroom contexts.
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire
Author: Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537827
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism. The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, this Companion provides students and scholars of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century French and European literature with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of this extraordinary poet.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537827
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism. The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, this Companion provides students and scholars of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century French and European literature with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of this extraordinary poet.
The Beauty of Baudelaire
Author: Roger Pearson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192655078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris. It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire's reputation as the 'father' of modern poetry. Whereas he is traditionally considered to have rejected the public role of the writer as moralist, educator, and political leader and to have dedicated himself instead to the exclusive pursuit of beauty in art, this book contends not only that he rejected Art for Art's sake but that he saw in 'beauty'—defined not as an inherent quality but as an effect of harmony and rich conjecture—an alternative ethos with which to resist the tyrannies of ideology and conformism. Contrarian in his thinking and provocatively innovative in his poetic practice, Baudelaire fell foul of the law when six poems in Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) were banned for obscenity. In the second edition (1861), substantially recast and enlarged, the poet as alternative lawgiver made plainer still his resistance to the orthodoxies of his day. In a series of major critical articles he proclaimed the 'government of the imagination', while from 1855 until his death he developed an alternative literary form, the prose poem—a thing of beauty and an invitation to imagine the world afresh, to make our own rules.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192655078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris. It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire's reputation as the 'father' of modern poetry. Whereas he is traditionally considered to have rejected the public role of the writer as moralist, educator, and political leader and to have dedicated himself instead to the exclusive pursuit of beauty in art, this book contends not only that he rejected Art for Art's sake but that he saw in 'beauty'—defined not as an inherent quality but as an effect of harmony and rich conjecture—an alternative ethos with which to resist the tyrannies of ideology and conformism. Contrarian in his thinking and provocatively innovative in his poetic practice, Baudelaire fell foul of the law when six poems in Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) were banned for obscenity. In the second edition (1861), substantially recast and enlarged, the poet as alternative lawgiver made plainer still his resistance to the orthodoxies of his day. In a series of major critical articles he proclaimed the 'government of the imagination', while from 1855 until his death he developed an alternative literary form, the prose poem—a thing of beauty and an invitation to imagine the world afresh, to make our own rules.