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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBaudelaire points to "le conseil judiciaire," the legal guardianship, as the central event that defined his self and the course of his life. Relying on studies of memory in neuroscience and on Baudelaire's own views of...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 101, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article seeks, through an analysis of the response of 'psychologist critics' inspired by degeneration theory to the work of Charles Baudelaire in fin de siecle Spain, to determine the originality of the application...
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From: an Excerpt from Charles Baudelaire: A Study[An English critic, poet, dramatist, short story writer, and editor, Symons initially gained notoriety as an English decadent in the 1890s, and eventually established himself as one of the most important critics of the...
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From:Acta Literaria (Vol. 60) Peer-ReviewedEl arte del narrador está inserto en la necesidad de producir conocimiento, o por lo menos de mantenerlo en una forma de circulación. Para Walter Benjamin el narrador es una figura que la modernidad con todo su...
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From: Romance Quarterly[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Kaplan focuses on the many tensions and oppositions of Les Fleurs du Mal--in particular the tension between the ethical and the aesthetic content of the work.]...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedBaudelaire's Salon de 1846 appears to be devoted to the textual transposition of visual experience. Yet the text features a coherent body of tropes pertaining to the sense of taste--the physiological sense of flavor...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French StudiesPeer-ReviewedCette vie est un hopital ou chaque malade est possede du desir de changer de lit. Celui-ci voudrait souffrir en face du poele, et celui-la croit qu'il guerirait a cote de la fenetre. Il me semble que je serais...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6159)In this bicentenary month of the birth of the poet Charles Baudelaire, I wonder, has the sublime Les Fleurs du Mal that so scandalized nineteenth-century Paris become one of those books gathering dust on a shelf you need...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedNalo Hopkinson is a major figure in contemporary literary Afrofuturism. Critics have focused on Midnight Robber (2000), a novel set in a far future in which Afro-Caribbean peoples have colonized distant planets. (1) The...
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From: L'Esprit Créateur[(essay date fall 1997) In the following essay, Constable examines Rachilde's role in popularizing the yellow metaphor in Decadent literature and delineates the influences linking Decadent women writers to their male...
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From: Australian Journal of French Studies[(essay date May-August 1999) In the following essay, Goulbourne discusses Baudelaire's usage of points de suspension or ellipses, noting that the poet paid "obsessive attention" to matters of punctuation.] Writing...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedFramed by a concept of fetish aesthetics that links Baudelaire and Proust's fictional painter, Elstir, the article examines the evolution of Baudelaire's fetishizing understanding of "modern beauty." It does so by...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay supplements existing readings of Baudelaire's sonnet "A une dame creole" (1845) by apprehending it not as a univocal piece centered on colonialist ambiguity, but as a locus of semantic plurality where this...
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From:Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea (Vol. 30, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedResumo en estas páginas (1) un proyecto que acaso merezca una larga investigación y un libro extenso. Se trata de lo siguiente. Un soneto ahora famoso de Baudelaire (1821-1867), "A une passante," ha sido elevado por una...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWho is speaking in Baudelaire's Salon de 1846? Such a seemingly straightforward question is worth asking because the incongruity of many statements and attitudes in the Salon makes it difficult to attribute the voice to...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French StudiesPeer-ReviewedIn his influential study, Die Struktur der Modernen Lyrik, Hugo Friedrich charts a progression toward negativity in modern poetry. This movement can best be understood in terms of what Friedrich calls "negative...
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From: Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Bonnefoy discusses Baudelaire’s particular sensitivity to color and interprets the prose poem “La belle Dorothée” (“The Beautiful Dorothy”) as a visual study. Bonnefoy suggests...
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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies[(essay date fall-winter 1991-92) In the following essay, Harrington discusses the fragmentation of the self and the ironic uses to which Baudelaire put this fragmentation in Les Fleurs du Mal.] Fragmentation commands...
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From: Readings in Contemporary Australian Poetry[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Maver considers the links between the poetry of Hope and Charles Baudelaire.] I The Australian poet A. D. Hope never felt the particular need to stress the degree of...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis piece argues that Baudelaire's two dog-centered prose poems covertly invite an allegorical reading of his collection. After briefly outlining the poet's understanding of allegory, it identifies, in both "Le Chien...