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The author offers illuminating readings, critiques of translations, and her own translations of Baudelaire's "world", understood here to include all his works of poetry (both verse and prose), criticism, and correspondence. The study considers the poet's work in its richly textured biographical, historical, and cultural context. At the same time, the author is careful to resist the temptation of facile readings that would unequivocally proclaim a...

Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850. The Baudelaire...

Wing examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Each of the four authors is shown to be concerned with the tension between narrative coherence as a desirable goal and an unfortunate check placed on the 'free' play of fantasy.