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Hartley, Julia Caterina (2019) The medieval and the modern in Baudelaire's 'À une passante'. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 48 (1-2). pp. 98-113. doi:10.1353/ncf.2019.0016 ISSN 0146-7891.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2019.0016
Abstract
This article highlights a medieval dimension to Charles Baudelaire’s “À une passante,” a poem that has been considered emblematic of poetic modernity. A comparative reading with two medieval Italian sonnets, Dante’s “Tanto gentile e onesta pare” and Guido Cavalcanti’s “Chi è questa che vèn, ch’ogn’om la mira,” brings to light Baudelaire’s continuity with, and divergence from, the medieval lyric. “À une passante” ultimately emerges as traditional in its subject matter and form, and modern in its portrayal of a highly individualized self and this self’s relationship to the other. This double dimension, encompassing both an immutable poetic form and the fleeting present of nineteenth-century Paris, is finally linked to Baudelaire’s account of the composite nature of art in “Le Peintre de la vie moderne.”
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | French poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism, French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nineteenth-Century French Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0146-7891 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 29 October 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 48 | ||||||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 98-113 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/ncf.2019.0016 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | University of Nebraska | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 December 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 January 2020 | ||||||||
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