Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
The Socio-Poetics of Modernism

This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of socioanalysis to literary history and cultural studies.

Eugene W. Holland (Author)

9780521031349, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2006

328 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.424 kg

"Holland's study of Baudelaire has achieved the aim of providing a total reading of Baudelaire's works, integrating interpretations of his poems, prose-poems, art criticism, letters and journals." Timothy Raser, Nineteenth-century French Studies

This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides an illuminating approach to the poetry and art criticism of the foremost French modernist. Professor Holland's book draws upon and transforms virtually the entire spectrum of recent Baudelaire scholarship and demonstrates the impact of the capitalist market and its attendant authoritarianism (as well as Baudelaire's much-discussed family circumstances) on the psychology and poetics of the writer, who abandoned his romantic idealism in favour of a modernist cynicism that has characterized modern culture ever since.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]