Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the Fleurs du mal and Spleen de Paris - Hardcover

Runyon, Randolph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814211186 ISBN 13: 9780814211182

Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr, 2010

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Review:

"This is a bold and original study of Baudelaire's literary art. Professor Runyon meticulously challenges the still dominant view of Baudelaire's prose poems, Le Spleen de Paris, as a somewhat random collection, and he refutes those interpreters skeptical of the unity and internal coherence of Baudelaire's poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal. All in all, it is a brilliant and well-documented response to the present state of Baudelaire studies seen from the perspective of textual coherence." --Edward K. Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Brandeis University

"Randolph Runyon is a well-known writer on French literature and culture, and his Intratextual Baudelaire is a serious work, carefully argued, which will make a significant contribution to discussions of the organization of Baudelaire's two books." --Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University

About the Author:

Randolph Paul Runyon is professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0814211186
• ISBN 13: 9780814211182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282