An Atmospherics of the City : Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise /

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"What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city? An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire's evolution from a writer wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chambers, Ross
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867.
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867 > Criticism and interpretation.
City and town life in literature.
POETRY > Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Vie urbaine dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I: Fetish and the Everyday; 1. From the Sublime to the Subliminal: Fetish Aesthetics; 2. The Magic Windowpane; Part II: Allegory, History, and the Weather of Time; 3. Fetishism Becomes Allegory; 4. Daylight Specters: Allegory and the Weather of Time; Part III: Ironic Atmospherics and the Urban Diary; 5. Ironic Encounter: The Poetics of Anonymity; 6. "La forme d'une ville": The Urban Diary; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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