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The Beauty of Baudelaire - The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver (Hardcover)
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The Beauty of Baudelaire - The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver (Hardcover)
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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.
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