Baudelaire's ironic lighthouse: Poem as image, poem into image
Visual interpretation can offer a means of critical exegesis, as demonstrated in this article which proposes a reading of Baudelaire’s poem ‘L’Irrémédiable’ via a series of original drawings, in a process of reverse ekphrasis. ‘L’Irrémédiable’ is read as both an ekphrastic, anti-modern poem explorin...
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University of California Press
2022
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| 總結: | Visual interpretation can offer a means of critical exegesis, as demonstrated in this article which proposes a reading of Baudelaire’s poem ‘L’Irrémédiable’ via a series of original drawings, in a process of reverse ekphrasis. ‘L’Irrémédiable’ is read as both an ekphrastic,
anti-modern poem exploring a series of old-fashioned emblems, and a radical step towards iconicity in which the shape of the poem gives spatial expression to the ironic beacon of self-awareness. |
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