In a bold reassessment, this book analyzes the works of Baudelaire and Celan, two poets who frame our sense of modern poetry and define the beginning and end of modernity itself. It relates Baudelaire's exploration of the trauma of the minute personal shocks of everyday existence to Celan's engagement with the catastrophic magnitude of the Holocaust.
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In a bold reassessment, this book analyzes the works of Baudelaire and Celan, two poets who frame our sense of modern poetry and define the beginning and end of modernity itself. It relates Baudelaire's exploration of the trauma of the minute personal shocks of everyday existence to Celan's engagement with the catastrophic magnitude of the Holocaust.
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Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, some light page-edge soil, VG. 22x14cm, xi, 343 pp. Contents: Introduction: On the Margins of Modernity; The First Modern Poet: Charles Baudelaire: The Experience of Freedom; The Settings of Experience; Blindness & the Sky; Straitening Poetry of Imposition / Poetics of Exposition; The Last Modern Poet: Paul Celan: Laying Language Bare; Landscape & Memory; Frames of Experience; Conclusion.
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Very Good in Missing jacket. Size: 8x5x1; A nice hardcover missing the dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Good. Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
