PLACELESSNESS IN BAUDELAIRE'S ‘LES SEPT VIEILLARDS’ AND ‘LES PETITES VIEILLES’
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Authors
Daniel A. Finch-Race
Abstract
Focusing on the urban heart of the 1861 edition of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, this ecocritical analysis is concerned with the poetic consequences of placelessness in ‘Les Sept Vieillards’ and ‘Les Petites Vieilles’. The article establishes a link between versification and environmental alteration; the unsettling diptych can thus be perceived as evoking a threshold for place identity, framed by Haussmann's modernization of Paris.
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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Modern Humanities Research Association via http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.4.1011
Keywords
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4703 Language Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
Journal Title
The Modern Language Review
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Journal ISSN
0026-7937
Volume Title
110
Publisher
Project MUSE