The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in Prose

by Cheryl Krueger

How does Baudelaire's prose poetry tell (human/modern/literary) time, and how do time and narrative tell the story of the po me en prose? Using textual analysis informed by a wide range of scholarship on Baudelaire, modernity, and narrative theory, Krueger argues that what lies beneath the genre's obvious evocation of formal and literary tensions (between verse and prose, between the lyric and the narrative) are larger questions of immortality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161149320X
• ISBN13: 9781611493207
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 156 Pages