Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation

This paper examines the various ways of treating the body in Baudelaire’s poetry: there is an abject, degraded body; another one sublime; as well as another one artificial; and perhaps an absent body, fully sublimated. We present paradigms, frames of reference to examine the issue. The purpose is to...

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Main Author: Claudio Willer
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2013-07-01
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/fronteiraz/article/view/14715
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description This paper examines the various ways of treating the body in Baudelaire’s poetry: there is an abject, degraded body; another one sublime; as well as another one artificial; and perhaps an absent body, fully sublimated. We present paradigms, frames of reference to examine the issue. The purpose is to enrich Baudelaire’s reading of and contribute to the examination of his enormous contribution.
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title Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation
title_full Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation
title_fullStr Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation
title_full_unstemmed Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation
title_short Baudelaire and the body: mysticism, elevation and degradation
title_sort baudelaire and the body mysticism elevation and degradation
topic Baudelaire
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url https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/fronteiraz/article/view/14715
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