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Baudelaire and Intertextuality: Poetry at the Crossroads

Baudelaire and Intertextuality: Poetry at the Crossroads

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Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 38

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521025591
ISBN13: 9780521025591
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 20 2006
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In this reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's text serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the novel and the moral fable. She shows how the text probes the fundamental tension between individuality and conformity, powerfully symbolized by the giant metropolis. Dr. Evans explores the interconnections among the prose poems that make up Le Spleen de Paris and their intertextual relations with other, mostly prose, works, and argues that this anomalous, hybrid work raises far-reaching questions of relevance to narratology and to literary theory as a whole.

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