Understanding Les fleurs du mal
Subtitle: critical readings
By: edited by William J. Thompson ; foreword by Claude Pichois.
Contributors: Thompson, William J., 1961-
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Other titles: Fleurs du mal
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mimesis and the grotesque in "L'albatros" / Susan Blood; title: Baudelaire's "La vie antérieure" / Nina Tucci; title: "La géante" : feminine proportions and lyric subjectivity / Gretchen Schultz; title: "Parfum exotique" / Jeanne Theis Whitaker; title: Immortal rot : a reading of "Une charogne" / William Olmsted; title: "Le balcon" : the poetics of nocturnal and diurnal imagery / Claudine Giacchetti; title: "Tout entière" : a mystifying totality / Eliane DalMolin; title: Fur in my brain : "Le chat" / Margaret Miner; title: "L'invitation au voyage" / Karen Harrington; title: "Le cygne" of Baudelaire / Gérard Gasarian; title: The role of structural analysis : "Les sept vieillards" / Marie Maclean; title: Order and chaos in "A une passante" / William Thompson; title: Profaned memory : a Proustian reading of Baudelaire's "Je n'ai pas oublié ..." / Brigitte Mahuzier; title: Recycling the ragpicker : "Le vin des chiffonniers" / Ross Chambers; title: Myth, metaphor, and music in "Le voyage" / Walter Putnam; title: Poet, painter, lover : a reading of "Les bijoux" / Richard D.E. Burton.