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Auteur(s) : Chambers, Ross (1932-2017)
Titre(s) : An atmospherics of the City [Texte imprimé] : Baudelaire and the poetics of noise / Ross Chambers
Publication : New York : Fordham University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : xiii-187 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : Verbal arts : studies in poetics
Lien à la collection : Verbal art
Comprend : Preface ; Part I. Fetish and the everyday. From the sublime to the subliminal : fetish
aesthetics ; The magic windowpane ; Part II. Allegory, history and the weather of
time. Fetishism becomes allegory ; Daylight specters : allegory and the weather of
time ; Part III. Ironic atmospherics and the urban diary. Ironic encounters : the
poetics of anonymity ; "La forme d'une ville" : the urban diary ; Appendix.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index
"What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates
natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art
with the hustle and noise of the city? An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles
Baudelaire's evolution from a writer who practices a form of fetishizing aesthetics
in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who perceives background noise
and disorder-the city's version of a transcendent atmosphere-as evidence of the malign
work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction. Analyzing this
shift, particularly as evidenced in Tableaux parisiens and Le Spleen de Paris, Ross
Chambers shows how Baudelaire's disenchantment with the politics of his day and the
coincident rise of overpopulation, poverty, and Haussmann's modernization of Paris
influenced the poet's work to conceive a poetry of allegory, one with the power to
alert and disalienate its otherwise inattentive reader whose senses have long been
dulled by the din of his environment. Providing a completely new and original understanding
of both Baudelaire's ethics and his aesthetics, Chambers reveals how the shift from
themes of the supernatural in Baudelaire to ones of alienation allowed a new way for
him to articulate and for his fellow Parisians to comprehend the rapidly changing
conditions of the city and, in the process, to invent a "modern beauty" from the realm
of suffering and the abject as they embodied forms of urban experience" ; "An Atmospherics
of the City traces Charles Baudelaire's evolution from a writer who practices a form
of fetishizing aesthetics in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who
perceives background noise and disorder--the city's version of a transcendent atmosphere--as
evidence of the malign work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction"
Sujet(s) : Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) -- Critique et interprétation
Vie urbaine -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
841.8 (23e éd.) = Poésie de langue française - 1848-1899 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780823265848. - ISBN 0823265846
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45029085z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45029085
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