Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal": Critical Readings

by William J. Thompson (Editor)

Overview

Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaireís collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826512970
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	05/31/1997
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William J. Thompson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Memphis, has written widely on French literature and culture. He recently served as volume editor of The Contemporary Novel in France (University Press of Florida, 1995).

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword
Claude Pichois, Vanderbilt University and the University of Paris (Sorbonne)
Introduction
William J. Thompson, University of Memphis
L'Albatros
Susan Blood, Yale University
La Vie anterieure
Nina Tucci, University of Houston
Tout entiere
Eliane Dal-Molin, University of Connecticut
La Geante
Gretchen Schultz, Brown University
Parfum exotique
Jeanne Theis Whitaker, Wheaton College
Une Charogne
William Olmsted, Valparaiso University
Le Balcon
Claudine Giacchetti, University of Houston
Le Chat ("Dans ma cervelle . . . ")
Margaret Miner, University of Illinois at Chicago
L'invitation au voyage
Karen Harrington, East Tennessee State University
Le Cygne
Gerard Gasarian, Tufts University
Les sept vieillards
Marie Maclean, Monash University, Australia
A une passante
William J. Thompson, University of Memphis
"Je n'ai pas oublie..."
Brigitte Mahuzier, Princeton University
Le vin des chiffonniers
L. Ross Chambers, University of Michigan
Le Voyage
Walter C. Putnam, University of New Mexico
Les Bijoux
Richard D. E. Burton, University of Sussex, England

Index

Editorial Reviews

An original and valuable contribution to Baudelaire studies . . . The selection of poems is thoughtful, including both well-known and well-anthologized pieces, as well as lesser-known works, and the essays are supported by excellent and pertinent bibliographies.
Sima Godfrey University of British Columbia

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