| Baudelaire: Les Fleurs Du Mal Contributor(s): Leakey, F. W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1139166247 ISBN-13: 9781139166249 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $425.00 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: NA |
| Series: Landmarks of World Literature |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Les Fleurs du Mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, has in this century become the most famous and the most admired, owing its "landmark" status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses rather than to its judicial condemnation on its first publication in 1857. In this volume, Professor Leakey provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding and appreciation of Les Fleurs du Mal, offering new insights into its composition, themes and style, setting it in its historical context, and devoting a whole chapter to Baudelaire's crowning achievement, Le Cygne. |