Understanding Les fleurs du mal : critical readings / edited by William J. Thompson ; foreword by Claude Pichois.

Other author Thompson, William J., 1961-
Format Book
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Fleurs du mal
Contents Mimesis and the grotesque in "L'albatros" / Susan Blood -- Baudelaire's "La vie antérieure" / Nina Tucci -- "La géante" : feminine proportions and lyric subjectivity / Gretchen Schultz -- "Parfum exotique" / Jeanne Theis Whitaker -- Immortal rot : a reading of "Une charogne" / William Olmsted -- "Le balcon" : the poetics of nocturnal and diurnal imagery / Claudine Giacchetti -- "Tout entière" : a mystifying totality / Eliane DalMolin -- Fur in my brain : "Le chat" / Margaret Miner -- "L'invitation au voyage" / Karen Harrington -- "Le cygne" of Baudelaire / Gérard Gasarian -- The role of structural analysis : "Les sept vieillards" / Marie Maclean -- Order and chaos in "A une passante" / William Thompson -- Profaned memory : a Proustian reading of Baudelaire's "Je n'ai pas oublié ..." / Brigitte Mahuzier -- Recycling the ragpicker : "Le vin des chiffonniers" / Ross Chambers -- Myth, metaphor, and music in "Le voyage" / Walter Putnam -- Poet, painter, lover : a reading of "Les bijoux" / Richard D.E. Burton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.
LCCN 97004698
ISBN0826512909 (alk. paper)
ISBN0826512976 (pbk. : alk. paper)