Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation
This paper examines the various ways of treating the body in Baudelaire’s poetry: there is an abject, degraded body; another one sublime; as well as another one artificial; and perhaps an absent body, fully sublimated. We present paradigms, frames of reference to examine the issue. The purpose is to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2013-07-01
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| Series: | FronteiraZ |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/fronteiraz/article/view/14715 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the various ways of treating the body in Baudelaire’s poetry: there is an abject, degraded body; another one sublime; as well as another one artificial; and perhaps an absent body, fully sublimated. We present paradigms, frames of reference to examine the issue. The purpose is to enrich Baudelaire’s reading of and contribute to the examination of his enormous contribution. |
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| ISSN: | 1983-4373 |