An atmospherics of the City : Baudelaire and the poetics of noise / Ross Chambers.

9780823266739 (ebook) :

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New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

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This title traces Baudelaire's evolution from an aesthetics of fetishising, in which the function of poetry is to produce beauty out of the ordinary by means of the poet's artifice, to a poetics of allegory that reads the modern city's atmospherics as a product of urban noise and as a function, therefore, of what today would be recognised as entropy. In this later stage, the function of the poetic becomes one of disalienation; it strives to awaken readers to the presence of Evil as a malevolent force that is responsible for the depredations of human history over time.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.