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Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt
An Axial Analysis
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 312
2021
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Abstract
This study is essential reading for those interested in cross-cultural nineteenth century literary developments. It introduces a novel axial methodology used to perform a comparative analysis of seminal works by Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire. Laying bare uncanny affinities of these writers, this book traces their strikingly similar generic innovations, exploring how they revised antiquated notions of Romanticism, anticipating Modernism. Baudelaire casts the American author as a Byronic dandy, assuring Poe’s lasting reputation. But does Baudelaire owe more to Poe than previously assumed? Was Baudelaire’s Poe a convenient palimpsest for the French writer’s own self-invention, or did Poe cast a shadow on his disciple, fostering an anxiety of influence? The study examines when Baudelaire emulated his mentor and when he subverted Poe’s influence. The axial methodology proposed should prove useful for professors and students who want to compare other aesthetic works.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | 3 | ||
| Imprint | 4 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 9 | ||
| Introduction | 11 | ||
| Poedelairian Aesthetics: The State of Critical Inquiry | 16 | ||
| An Axial Methodology: Writing as an Architecture of Space and Time | 39 | ||
| Precursor Axial Models in Structural and Post-structural Theories | 58 | ||
| Part One: Exploring the Context | 65 | ||
| I Edgar Allan Poe’s American Identity in Question | 75 | ||
| 1 A Biographical Sketch | 75 | ||
| 2 The United States and the Literary Climate in the Early Nineteenth Century | 78 | ||
| 3 Poe and his Contemporaries | 84 | ||
| 4 Poe’s Reception | 92 | ||
| II Baudelaire’s Polyglot Identity | 97 | ||
| 1 A Biographical Sketch | 97 | ||
| 2 France in the Early Nineteenth Century | 101 | ||
| 3 Baudelaire and his Contemporaries | 107 | ||
| III Baudelaire’s Fascination with Poe | 111 | ||
| 1 Baudelaire’s Essays on Poe | 116 | ||
| Part Two: Exploring the Aesthetic Affinities of Poe and Baudelaire | 127 | ||
| I The Anti-Mimetic Art of Imaginative Recollection (Inventatio over Imitatio) | 129 | ||
| II “L’Art pour l’Art” and Poetry for Poetry | 145 | ||
| III The Aesthetics of Self-Invention | 151 | ||
| 1 Daguerreotypes and Self-Representation | 152 | ||
| 2 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Experiments with Identity | 156 | ||
| 3 Fictional Autobiography and Literary Travesty | 158 | ||
| 4 Common Aesthetic Poses | 161 | ||
| 5 Dandyism | 162 | ||
| 6 Non-Conformism: Revolt Against the Socio-Political Mainstream | 168 | ||
| IV Constructing an Aesthetic Ideal | 173 | ||
| 1 Poe’s “Lenore”: Romanticism Revisited or Revised? | 175 | ||
| 2 The Baudelairian Revision of Romanticism and Quest for an Aesthetic Ideal | 181 | ||
| V An Architecture of Aesthetic Spaces | 231 | ||
| 1 Le monde intérieur versus le monde extérieur | 232 | ||
| 2 Aesthetic Revolt: The Individual (or the Artist) against Society | 245 | ||
| 3 Temporal Conflict: Limited Time and Eternity | 249 | ||
| VI Existential Conflict in the Quest for the Ideal | 253 | ||
| 1 Spleen and Ideal in Baudelaire’s Writing | 253 | ||
| 2 Spleen | 255 | ||
| 3 Man’s Odyssey in his Pursuit of the Ideal | 261 | ||
| 4 The Failed Ideal and the Dominance of Spleen | 267 | ||
| 5 “Spleen Et/Est idéal | 270 | ||
| 6 The Conflict of Spleen and Ideal in Poe’s Writing | 272 | ||
| 7 Poe’s Pits | 276 | ||
| VII Poe and the Quest for the Ideal: Eldorado as an Aesthetic Odyssey | 281 | ||
| Part Three: Exploring Artistic Craftsmanship: Poe and Baudelaire’s Innovative ‘Architecture’ as a Revolt Against Established Generic Norms | 293 | ||
| I The Vade Mecums | 295 | ||
| 1 “The Philosophy of Composition”: Hoax or Vade Mecum | 296 | ||
| 2 Baudelaire’s “Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs | 303 | ||
| 3 A Comparison of the Vade Mecums | 307 | ||
| II Brevities as Genre Expansion: Poe’s ‚Marginalia‘ and Baudelaire’s ‚Mon coeur mis à nu and Fusées‘ | 313 | ||
| 1 A Figurative Application of an Axial Methodology | 313 | ||
| 2 The Vertical Axis: Margins as a Creative Possibility | 314 | ||
| 3 Baudelaire’s response to the ‚Marginalia‘ | 325 | ||
| III Prose versus Poetry | 343 | ||
| 1 Poe’s ‚The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym‘ | 351 | ||
| 2 Baudelaire’s ‚La Fanfarlo‘ | 355 | ||
| 3 Poe’s influence on Baudelaire’s ‘Invention’ of the Prose Poem as a New Genre | 357 | ||
| 4 “The Raven” as an Example of Novelties in Versification and Genre | 358 | ||
| 5 Poe’s “Prose Poem” ‚Eureka‘ | 360 | ||
| IV Baudelaire’s Appropriation and Expansion of Poe’s Genre Innovations | 365 | ||
| 1 Baudelaire’s Apparent Role Model : Aloysius Bertrand | 367 | ||
| 2 Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” as a Source for the Prose Poem “Les Foules” | 368 | ||
| Conclusion | 373 | ||
| Table of Figures [All illustrations by the author] | 379 | ||
| Works Cited | 381 | ||
| Appendix 1 Interview with Curators of “L’OEil de Baudelaire” [English Translation], September 19, 2016 | 403 | ||
| Appendix 2 Interview with Curators of «L’OEil de Baudelaire» [French Original], le 19 Septembre, 2016 | 417 | ||
| Index | 431 | ||
| Backcover | Backcover |
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