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Named Person: | Charles Baudelaire |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dudley M Marchi |
ISBN: | 9781433114427 1433114429 |
OCLC Number: | 725050121 |
Description: | 150 Seiten 230 x 160 mm |
Series Title: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 195. |
Responsibility: | Dudley M. Marchi. |
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"Bridging the gap between the 'vieux continent' and the new world order along lines of geography, esthetics, and poetics, this study offers intriguing insights into transatlantic echoes of the last two centuries. Readers will be taken not only by the provocative juxtaposition of Baudelaire and Emerson, but by this study's breadth, leaving practically no stone unturned between nineteenth-century French and American poetry and twenty-first century students in North Carolina. All the while, we follow the central question of the individual in society, that essential query that is no less relevant in today's postmodern moment than it was to Baudelaire's poetic subject at advent of the modern world." (Professor Seth Whidden, Department of Romance Languages, Villanova University) "Dudley Marchi's 'Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection: Contrary Affinities' presents a compelling analysis of the complex love/hate relationship between France and the US from the nineteenth century to the present day. Through careful readings of Baudelaire's and Emerson's poetry and essays, Marchi establishes unexpected and revealing connections between these influential authors while at the same time highlighting social and cultural points of intersection (and divergence) that extend from the 1840s to today, moving from Baudelaire and Emerson to Sarkozy and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This comparative, interdisciplinary study of the politics, poetics, and aesthetics of French and American modernity provides important insights on the construction of the individual subject within the larger context of transatlantic and intercultural studies. This book brings new light to contemporary issues of French-American relations with deep intelligence and originality." (Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin) Read more...

