Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
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Baudelaire's Art Criticism
Baudelaire's Prose
Baudelaire's Prose Poem
Baudelaire's Prose Poetry
Baudelaire's Text
Baudelaire’s Art Criticism
Baudelaire’s Prose
Baudelaire’s Prose Poem
Baudelaire’s Prose Poetry
Baudelaire’s Text
bourgeois culture critique
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cultural commentary France
Danse Macabre
Du Mal
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irony in prose poems research
La Belle
La Solitude
La Soupe
Le Joueur
Le Mauvais Vitrier
Le Miroir
Le Spleen De Paris
Le Tir
Le Vieux Saltimbanque
Les Fleurs Du Mal
literary irony studies
Maria C. Scot
nineteenth-century French literature
Pauvre Belgique
prose
Prose Poem
Prose Poetry
prose poetry analysis
Une Mort
Product details
- ISBN 9780754651116
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Maria Scott is Lecturer in French at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
