FREN 4860

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FREN 4860
Baudelaire and the Exhaustion of Modernity

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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.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Comments Conducted in French.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16176 FREN 4860   SEM 101

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  • Conducted in French.