num_pages: 200
description: This book considers Baudelaire's prose poetry as an exploration of the duality of the genre. It considers the ironic and parodic aspects of the work and, in the light of Baudelaire's own theories of the comic, argues that his prose poetry is best understood as a form of literary caricature.
language: English
title: Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony
titlecomplete: Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony
publisher: Oxford University Press