Baudelaire and Intertextuality

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This 1993 proposes that Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the novel and the moral fable.

Résumé
In this 1993 reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's text serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the novel and the moral fable. She shows how the text probes the fundamental tension between individuality and conformity, powerfully symbolized by the giant metropolis.

Contenu

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The city; 2. Exchange codes; 3. Poetry and desire; 4. Unsententious moralities; 5. Poetry and madness; 6. Poetic cookery; 7. The poet as savage: rewriting cliché; 8. Musicality; 9. Straight lines and arabesques; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.