An Atmospherics of the City : Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise /
Chambers, Ross
An Atmospherics of the City : Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise / Ross Chambers. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics .
Frontmatter -- contents -- preface -- part I. Fetish and the Everyday -- one. From the Sublime to the Subliminal: Fetish Aesthetics -- two. The Magic Windowpane -- part II. Allegory, History, and the Weather of Time -- three. Fetishism Becomes Allegory -- four. Daylight Specters: Allegory and the Weather of Time -- part III. Ironic Atmospherics and the Urban Diary -- five. Ironic Encounter: The Poetics of Anonymity -- six. "La forme d'une ville": The Urban Diary -- appendix -- notes -- index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire's evolution from a writer who practices a form of fetishizing aesthetics in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who perceives background noise and disorder-the city's version of a transcendent atmosphere-as evidence of the malign work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction.Analyzing this shift, particularly as evidenced in Tableaux parisiens and Le Spleen de Paris, Ross Chambers shows how Baudelaire's disenchantment with the politics of his day and the coincident rise of overpopulation, poverty, and Haussmann's modernization of Paris influenced the poet's work to conceive a poetry of allegory, one with the power to alert and disalienate its otherwise inattentive reader whose senses have long been dulled by the din of his environment.Providing a completely new and original understanding of both Baudelaire's ethics and his aesthetics, Chambers reveals how the shift from themes of the supernatural in Baudelaire to ones of alienation allowed a new way for him to articulate and for his fellow Parisians to comprehend the rapidly changing conditions of the city and, in the process, to invent a "modern beauty" from the realm of suffering and the abject as they embodied forms of urban experience.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823265848 9780823265862
10.1515/9780823265862 doi
City and town life in literature.
Literary Studies.
Urban Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
PQ2191.Z5C425 2015
841/.8
An Atmospherics of the City : Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise / Ross Chambers. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics .
Frontmatter -- contents -- preface -- part I. Fetish and the Everyday -- one. From the Sublime to the Subliminal: Fetish Aesthetics -- two. The Magic Windowpane -- part II. Allegory, History, and the Weather of Time -- three. Fetishism Becomes Allegory -- four. Daylight Specters: Allegory and the Weather of Time -- part III. Ironic Atmospherics and the Urban Diary -- five. Ironic Encounter: The Poetics of Anonymity -- six. "La forme d'une ville": The Urban Diary -- appendix -- notes -- index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire's evolution from a writer who practices a form of fetishizing aesthetics in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who perceives background noise and disorder-the city's version of a transcendent atmosphere-as evidence of the malign work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction.Analyzing this shift, particularly as evidenced in Tableaux parisiens and Le Spleen de Paris, Ross Chambers shows how Baudelaire's disenchantment with the politics of his day and the coincident rise of overpopulation, poverty, and Haussmann's modernization of Paris influenced the poet's work to conceive a poetry of allegory, one with the power to alert and disalienate its otherwise inattentive reader whose senses have long been dulled by the din of his environment.Providing a completely new and original understanding of both Baudelaire's ethics and his aesthetics, Chambers reveals how the shift from themes of the supernatural in Baudelaire to ones of alienation allowed a new way for him to articulate and for his fellow Parisians to comprehend the rapidly changing conditions of the city and, in the process, to invent a "modern beauty" from the realm of suffering and the abject as they embodied forms of urban experience.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823265848 9780823265862
10.1515/9780823265862 doi
City and town life in literature.
Literary Studies.
Urban Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
PQ2191.Z5C425 2015
841/.8