The Violence of Modernity Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form

The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006
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