Danse le spleen

Danse le spleen
Author: Sophie Euphorie
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471762068

De haut ou en bas, en chute libre ou durant l'essor, la vie te transperce de couleurs. Le rouge de la haine, le rose de l'amour, le bleu du bonheur. Laisse la te dévoiler son chaos, ses trésors et ses zones d'ombres. Suis les écrits de la découverte. Inities toi au mouvement cauchemardesque ou utopique. Sombre de nuance nocturne ou évade toi dans la psychose coloré. Libère ton côté sombre et cache la lumière de tes sentiments nuancés. Les coloris de tes sensations s'éteignent et l'éclat meurt. Les narcotiques se mélangeront au spleen et s'évaderont dans cette narration.

Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris

Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
Author: MariaC. Scott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351574353

Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth century, was naturally very keenly aware of the growing dominance of the bourgeoisie in France, not least as a market for art and literature. Despite being dependent on this market for his own writing, the poet was highly critical of bourgeois values and attitudes. Scott builds on existing criticism of the collection to argue that these are indirectly mocked in Le Spleen de Paris, often in the person of the poet's supposed textual alter ego. The contention is that the prose poems betray the trust of readers by way of an apparent transparency of meaning that functions to blind us to their embedded irony. Though focused on Le Spleen de Paris, Scott's study engages with the full range of Baudelaire's writings, including his art and literary criticism. Her book will be of interest not only to Baudelaire scholars but also to those engaged more generally with nineteenth-century French culture.

Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem

Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem
Author: Seth Whidden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192666878

Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors that helped shape the nascent modernity in Baudelaire's poetic prose are the poems' themes, forms, linguistic qualities, and modes. The contradictions identifiable at the level of prose poetry's discourse are similarly perceptible in other aspects of Baudelaire's poetic language, beyond the discursive: in the poems' formal considerations, which retain recognisable traces of verse despite their prose presentation; and, with respect to both poetic form and thematics, in the sights and sounds that contribute to their poeticity. With a focus on what makes prose texts poetic, this study sheds light on Baudelaire the practitioner of the prose poem, as he navigated and complicated the boundaries between verse, prose, and poetry. Rather than rejecting those categories, Baudelaire forges a poetic space in which the notions of poetry and prose are recast, juxtaposed in a delicate balance in a textual space they manage to share. This coexistence of poetry and prose—previously thought of as incompatible—is the underlying tension and framework that contributes importantly to the modernity of his prose poetry. In turn, this new mode of poetry calls for new modes of reading poetry and new ways of engaging with a text.

Complete Poems

Complete Poems
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780415940924

The complete poems of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), presented with French and English versions on opposite pages.

Fleurs du mal

Fleurs du mal
Author: William J. Thompson
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN: 9780826512970

Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaireís collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.

Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque

Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque
Author: Shun-Liang Chao
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351551140

How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chao's new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this approach, Chao explores the imagery of Richard Crashaw, Charles Baudelaire, and Rene Magritte as individual exemplars of the grotesque in the Baroque, Romantic, and Surrealist ages, in order to suggest a lineage of this curious aesthetic and to cast light on the functions of the visual and of the verbal in evoking it.

Engendering Genre

Engendering Genre
Author: Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0776618903

Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize. In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism, comics, and film – and examines them individually. She explores how Atwood has developed her genres to be gender-sensitive in both content and form and argues that gender and genre are inherently complicit in Atwood’s work: they converge to critique the gender-biased designs of traditional genres. This combination of gender and genre results in the recognizable Atwoodian style that shakes and extends the boundaries of conventional genres and explores them in new ways. The book includes the first in-depth treatment of Atwood’s cartoon art as well as the first survey of her involvement with film, and concludes with an interview with Margaret Atwood on her career “From Survivalwoman to Literary Icon.”

The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire

The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire
Author: Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2006-01-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827170

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.