An Atmospherics of the City: Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise

(Part of the Verbal Arts Series)

by Ross Chambers

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0823265846

ISBN13:9780823265848

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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(Part of the Verbal Arts Series)

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