| Baudelaire and Le Spleen de Paris Contributor(s): Hiddleston, J. A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198158459 ISBN-13: 9780198158455 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1987 Annotation: The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling, and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This is the first study in English that is exclusively concerned with these texts. Approaching the poems chronologically, Hiddleston focuses primarily on the position of the artist and his attitude towards his art, the often enigmatic and contradictory moral message the poems purpose to convey and, above all, the relationship between prose and poetry in this hybrid and, by the poet's own admission, "dangerous" genre. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.8 |
| LCCN: 86021682 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.62" W x 8.52" (0.43 lbs) 130 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling, and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This is the first study in English that is exclusively concerned with these texts. Approaching the poems chronologically, Hiddleston focuses primarily on the position of the artist and his attitude towards his art, the often enigmatic and contradictory moral message the poems purpose to convey and, above all, the relationship between prose and poetry in this hybrid and, by the poet's own admission, dangerous genre. |