Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire's Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt [electronic resource] : An Axial Analysis.

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Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Poedelairian Aesthetics: The State of Critical Inquiry -- An Axial Methodology: Writing as an Architecture of Space and Time -- Precursor Axial Models in Structural and Post-structural Theories -- Part One: Exploring the Context -- I Edgar Allan Poe's American Identity in Question -- 1 A Biographical Sketch -- 2 The United States and the Literary Climate in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 3 Poe and his Contemporaries -- 4 Poe's Reception -- II Baudelaire's Polyglot Identity -- 1 A Biographical Sketch

2 France in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 3 Baudelaire and his Contemporaries -- III Baudelaire's Fascination with Poe -- 1 Baudelaire's Essays on Poe -- Part Two: Exploring the Aesthetic Affinities of Poe and Baudelaire -- I The Anti-Mimetic Art of Imaginative Recollection (Inventatio over Imitatio) -- II "L'Art pour l'Art" and Poetry for Poetry -- III The Aesthetics of Self-Invention -- 1 Daguerreotypes and Self-Representation -- 2 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Experiments with Identity -- 3 Fictional Autobiography and Literary Travesty -- 4 Common Aesthetic Poses -- 5 Dandyism

6 Non-Conformism: Revolt Against the Socio-Political Mainstream -- IV Constructing an Aesthetic Ideal -- 1 Poe's "Lenore": Romanticism Revisited or Revised? -- 2 The Baudelairian Revision of Romanticism and Quest for an Aesthetic Ideal -- V An Architecture of Aesthetic Spaces -- 1 Le monde intérieur versus le monde extérieur -- 2 Aesthetic Revolt: The Individual (or the Artist) against Society -- 3 Temporal Conflict: Limited Time and Eternity -- VI Existential Conflict in the Quest for the Ideal -- 1 Spleen and Ideal in Baudelaire's Writing -- 2 Spleen

3 Man's Odyssey in his Pursuit of the Ideal -- 4 The Failed Ideal and the Dominance of Spleen -- 5 "Spleen Et/Est idéal -- 6 The Conflict of Spleen and Ideal in Poe's Writing -- 7 Poe's Pits -- VII Poe and the Quest for the Ideal: Eldorado as an Aesthetic Odyssey -- Part Three: Exploring Artistic Craftsmanship: Poe and Baudelaire's Innovative 'Architecture' as a Revolt Against Established Generic Norms -- I The Vade Mecums -- 1 "The Philosophy of Composition": Hoax or Vade Mecum -- 2 Baudelaire's "Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs -- 3 A Comparison of the Vade Mecums

II Brevities as Genre Expansion: Poe's 'Marginalia' and Baudelaire's 'Mon coeur mis à nu and Fusées' -- 1 A Figurative Application of an Axial Methodology -- 2 The Vertical Axis: Margins as a Creative Possibility -- 3 Baudelaire's response to the 'Marginalia' -- III Prose versus Poetry -- 1 Poe's 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' -- 2 Baudelaire's 'La Fanfarlo' -- 3 Poe's influence on Baudelaire's 'Invention' of the Prose Poem as a New Genre -- 4 "The Raven" as an Example of Novelties in Versification and Genre -- 5 Poe's "Prose Poem" 'Eureka'

IV Baudelaire's Appropriation and Expansion of Poe's Genre Innovations.

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