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The Violence of Modernity
Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form
Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma.
Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.
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"A thought-provoking and carefully researched study which offers a captivating perspective on Baudelaire's poetry."—Nicole Fayard, French Studies
"Offers a refreshingly innovative approach not just to Baudelaire but also to broader critical interpretations of violence, modernity, irony, politics, and form."—Helen Abbott, Modern Language Review
"Admirable study."—Peter Childs, Symploke
"A major contribution to the study of Baudelaire and his influence . . . It has a great deal to offer not only scholars of French literature, but to anyone interested in the complex intersections between literature and history."—Alison James, Modern Philology
"At a time when we are more than ever encouraged to distinguish between good guys and bad guys, it is refreshing to read a work that illustrates the impossibility of such clear-cut distinctions."—Nicole Asquith, Substance
"One of the most solidly critically informed works in the field."—Michael R. Finn, South Central Review
"In her distinctive, innovative, and provocative work, Sanyal interprets Baudelaire's response to modernity as fundamentally political, and she conceives his strategies of understanding and interpretation as a concerted resistance to modernity's violence."—Richard Terdiman, University of California, Santa Cruz
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