FREN 4860

Baudelaire and the Exhaustion of Modernity

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

Is Charles Baudelaire's work "modern," "modernist," "anti-" or "post-modern?"  In this seminar, I am trying to show that Baudelaire's poetic and critical writings reflect on the inner exhaustion of modernity, this kind of fatigue that is now overwhelmingly apparent in our more than global age.  The modern project is worn out, and this was eminently predictable.  By interpreting anew some of Baudelaire's verse and prose poems, by studying his work as a theoretician and a translator, we may be able to identify some aspects of the necessary reinvention of individual and collective life after (post) modernity.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

Comments Conducted in French.

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