Seeing double : Baudelaire's modernity / Françoise Meltzer.

Author/creator Meltzer, Françoise
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Descriptionx, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Beliefs (assommons les pauvres!) -- Homo duplex -- More duplexities -- Maistre -- Proudhon's spirits of contradiction -- Splitting the difference: the poem -- Appendix: "assommons les pauvres!" -- Seeing (a une passante) -- The will to know -- Images and afterimages: the poem -- Certainty -- Scopic syllepsis -- Which is the real one? -- Optical gaps -- Energy: the baroque -- Appendix: "a une passante" -- Money (la chambre double) -- Expenditure -- Words pay no debts -- Depletion: the poem -- Reversibility -- Which room is counterfeit? -- The other side of the coin -- Appendix: "la chambre double" -- Time (harmonie du soir) -- God, graves, and scholars -- In memory of the present -- Angels doing time -- Harmonics: the poem -- And time and the world are ever in flight -- Appendix: "harmonie du soir."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010045692
ISBN9780226519883 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226519880 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ2191.Z5 M398 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold