Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire's Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt An Axial Analysis.

Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire's Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt An Axial Analysis.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Isaak, Sonya.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published:Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.
Series:American Studies - A Monograph Series.
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Influence.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Titel
  • Imprint
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Poedelairian Aesthetics: The State of Critical Inquiry
  • An Axial Methodology: Writing as an Architecture of Space and Time
  • Precursor Axial Models in Structural and Post-structural Theories
  • Part One: Exploring the Context
  • I Edgar Allan Poe's American Identity in Question
  • 1 A Biographical Sketch
  • 2 The United States and the Literary Climate in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 3 Poe and his Contemporaries
  • 4 Poe's Reception
  • II Baudelaire's Polyglot Identity
  • 1 A Biographical Sketch
  • 2 France in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 3 Baudelaire and his Contemporaries
  • III Baudelaire's Fascination with Poe
  • 1 Baudelaire's Essays on Poe
  • Part Two: Exploring the Aesthetic Affinities of Poe and Baudelaire
  • I The Anti-Mimetic Art of Imaginative Recollection (Inventatio over Imitatio)
  • II "L'Art pour l'Art" and Poetry for Poetry
  • III The Aesthetics of Self-Invention
  • 1 Daguerreotypes and Self-Representation
  • 2 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Experiments with Identity
  • 3 Fictional Autobiography and Literary Travesty
  • 4 Common Aesthetic Poses
  • 5 Dandyism
  • 6 Non-Conformism: Revolt Against the Socio-Political Mainstream
  • IV Constructing an Aesthetic Ideal
  • 1 Poe's "Lenore": Romanticism Revisited or Revised?
  • 2 The Baudelairian Revision of Romanticism and Quest for an Aesthetic Ideal
  • V An Architecture of Aesthetic Spaces
  • 1 Le monde intérieur versus le monde extérieur
  • 2 Aesthetic Revolt: The Individual (or the Artist) against Society
  • 3 Temporal Conflict: Limited Time and Eternity
  • VI Existential Conflict in the Quest for the Ideal
  • 1 Spleen and Ideal in Baudelaire's Writing
  • 2 Spleen
  • 3 Man's Odyssey in his Pursuit of the Ideal
  • 4 The Failed Ideal and the Dominance of Spleen
  • 5 "Spleen Et/Est idéal
  • 6 The Conflict of Spleen and Ideal in Poe's Writing
  • 7 Poe's Pits
  • VII Poe and the Quest for the Ideal: Eldorado as an Aesthetic Odyssey
  • Part Three: Exploring Artistic Craftsmanship: Poe and Baudelaire's Innovative 'Architecture' as a Revolt Against Established Generic Norms
  • I The Vade Mecums
  • 1 "The Philosophy of Composition": Hoax or Vade Mecum
  • 2 Baudelaire's "Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs
  • 3 A Comparison of the Vade Mecums
  • II Brevities as Genre Expansion: Poe's 'Marginalia' and Baudelaire's 'Mon coeur mis à nu and Fusées'
  • 1 A Figurative Application of an Axial Methodology
  • 2 The Vertical Axis: Margins as a Creative Possibility
  • 3 Baudelaire's response to the 'Marginalia'
  • III Prose versus Poetry
  • 1 Poe's 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'
  • 2 Baudelaire's 'La Fanfarlo'
  • 3 Poe's influence on Baudelaire's 'Invention' of the Prose Poem as a New Genre
  • 4 "The Raven" as an Example of Novelties in Versification and Genre
  • 5 Poe's "Prose Poem" 'Eureka'

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