The Violence of Modernity (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2006-07-01
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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No
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237 x 161 x 25 mm
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540 g
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1
ISBN
9780801883088

The Violence of Modernity

Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2006-07-01
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The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism-irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism-to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies-including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre-to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.
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Ambitious and thought-provoking... The Violence of Modernity is an important, enlightening book. -- Susan Blood H-France 2007 A thought-provoking and carefully researched study which offers a captivating perspective on Baudelaire's poetry. -- Nicole Fayard French Studies 2008 Offers a refreshingly innovative approach not just to Baudelaire but also to broader critical interpretations of violence, modernity, irony, politics, and form. -- Helen Abbott Modern Language Review 2008 Admirable study. -- Peter Childs Symploke 2008 A major contribution to the study of Baudelaire and his influence... It has a great deal to offer not only scholars of French literature, but to anyone interested in the complex intersections between literature and history. -- Alison James Modern Philology 2009 At a time when we are more than ever encouraged to distinguish between good guys and bad guys, it is refreshing to read a work that illustrates the impossibility of such clear-cut distinctions. -- Nicole Asquith Substance 2009 One of the most solidly critically informed works in the field. -- Michael R. Finn South Central Review 2009

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Debarati Sanyal is an associate professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Violence and Representation in Baudelaire 1. Baudelaire's Victims and Executioners: From the Symptoms of Trauma to a Critique of Violence 2. Passages from Form to Politics: Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris 3. Bodies in Motion, Texts on Stage: Baudelaire's Women and the Forms of Modernity Part II: Unlikely Contestations: Baudelaire's Legacy Revisited 4. Matter's Revenge on Form: Bad Girls Talk Back 5. Broken Engagements: Albert Camus and the Poetics of Terror Afterword Notes Works Cited Index