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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9780198158776 |
| Author | Sonya Stephens |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | The Practice And Politics Of Irony |
| Book Description | The aim of this book is to offer a new reading of Baudelaire's Petits Poemes en prose which demonstrates the significance of ironic otherness for the theory and functioning of the work and for the genre of the prose poem itself. The book considers Baudelaire's choice of this genre and the way in which he seeks to define it, both paratextually and textually. It examines the ways in which the prose poem depends on dualities and deboublements as forms of lyrical and narrative difference which, in their turn, reveal ideological otherness and declare the oppositionality of the prose poem. Finally, the book demonstrates a relationship between these forms of otherness and Baudelaire's theory of the popular comic arts and, in doing so, proposes that the prose poems should be read as literary caricature. |
| Editorial Review | give(s) us Baudelaire in all his complexity and contradictions. * Robert Snell, TLS * |
| About the Author | Lecturer in French, Royal Holloway College, University of London, 1991 |
| Publication Date | 16 Mar 2000 |
| Number of Pages | 196 |
Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice And Politics Of Irony hardcover english - 16 Mar 2000
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