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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| description | 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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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e57fd60c-4a4c-41a2-a1dc-dccefaad2aca2023-01-17T10:05:07ZBaudelaire's ironic lighthouse: Poem as image, poem into imageJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e57fd60c-4a4c-41a2-a1dc-dccefaad2acaEnglishSymplectic ElementsUniversity of California Press2022Yee, JVisual 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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