Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity
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1. Verfasser: Meltzer, Françoise (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press 2011
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Beschreibung:Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Beliefs (Assommons les pauvres!); Homo Duplex; More Duplexities; Maistre; Proudhon's Spirits of Contradiction; Splitting the Difference: The Poem; Appendix: "Assommons les pauvres!"; 2. Seeing (A une passante); The Will to Know; Images and Afterimages: The Poem; Certainty; Scopic Syllepsis; Which Is the Real One?; Optical Gaps; Energy: The Baroque; Appendix: "A une passante"; 3. Money (La chambre double); Expenditure; "Words Pay No Debts"; Depletion: The Poem; Reversibility; Which Room Is Counterfeit?; The Other Side of the Coin
Appendix: "La chambre double"4. Time (Harmonie du soir); God, Graves, and Scholars; In Memory of the Present; Angels Doing Time; Harmonics: The Poem; And Time and the World Are Ever in Flight; Appendix: "Harmonie du soir"; Conclusion; Index
The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire's writing during a time of political and social upheaval. Françoise Meltzer argues that Baudelaire did not simply desc
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:275 pages
ISBN:9780226519876
0226519872
1283362708
9781283362702
9780226519883
0226519880

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