Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Socio-Poetics of Modernism: 45 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 45)
Cambridge University Press, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521031349, ISBN10: 0521031346
Paperback, 328 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides an illuminating approach to the poetry and art criticism of the foremost French modernist. Professor Holland's book draws upon and transforms virtually the entire spectrum of recent Baudelaire scholarship and demonstrates the impact of the capitalist market and its attendant authoritarianism (as well as Baudelaire's much-discussed family circumstances) on the psychology and poetics of the writer, who abandoned his romantic idealism in favour of a modernist cynicism that has characterized modern culture ever since.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I. Poetics
2. Correspondences versus beauty
3. Spleen and evil
Part II. Psychopoetics
4. Romantic temperament and 'Spleen and Ideal'
5. Modernist imagination and the 'Tableaux Parisiens'
Part III. Sociopoetics
6. Decoding and recoding in the prose poems
7. The prose poem narrator
8. Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.