Synopses & Reviews
This is the first book to apply the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides a new and illuminating approach to Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism. Professor Holland demonstrates the impact of military authoritarianism and the capitalist market (as well as Baudelaire's much-discussed family circumstances) on the psychology and poetics of the writer, who abandoned his romantic idealism in favor of a modernist cynicism that has characterized modern culture ever since.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-302) and index.
Synopsis
This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of socioanalysis to literary history and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Poetics: 2. Correspondences versus beauty; 3. Spleen and evil; Part II. Psychopoetics: 4. Romantic temperament and 'Spleen and Ideal'; 5. Modernist imagination and the 'Tableaux Parisiens'; Part III. Sociopoetics: 6. Decoding and recoding in the prose poems; 7. The prose poem narrator; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.