{"product_id":"baudelaires-shadow-on-poetic-determination-paperback","title":"Baudelaire's Shadow: On Poetic Determination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathan Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraces the connection between poetic content and form in the contradictory logic of determination that permeates Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With a kind of omniscient curiosity, Nathan Brown probes so deeply into the metaphysical bestiary of \u003ci\u003eLes Fleurs du Mal \u003c\/i\u003ethat he can emerge from its cavernous depths with an armload of dripping seaweed named Kant. Wonders never cease in this sumptuous, even clairvoyant, examination\"--\u003cb\u003eJed Rasula\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Georgia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the most philosophically serious engagement with Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eLes Fleurs du Mal\u003c\/i\u003e that we have, Nathan Brown takes on the mysteries of poetic existence and of poetic determination with rich, surprising readings of such poems as 'Les Sept Vieillards, ' 'Obsession, ' 'Un Voyage ? Cyth?re, ' and 'Les Petites Vieilles.' An unusually stirring and eloquent tour de force.\"--\u003cb\u003eJonathan Culler\u003c\/b\u003e, Cornell University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaudelaire's fame and notoriety have been established by the reduction of his complex work to simplified profiles: the poet of the modern city, of erotic obsession, of Satanic revolt, of colonial fantasies, of mystical correspondences, of corporeal decay . . . But what is it that holds these facets of the work together? Is there a logic underpinning the proliferation of themes, styles, and personae in \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, while suturing content and form? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaudelaire's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e argues that what is most fundamentally at stake across the manifold layers of Baudelaire's poetic project is the problem of determination: a contradiction between \u003ci\u003edetermining\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ebeing determined\u003c\/i\u003e, a dialectic of agency bound up with its negation. This approach enables a new understanding of conceptual, formal, and figural cruxes traversing \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, including the relationship between writing and reading, the anticipation of death, the negativity of the void, the representation of race, the poetics of ekphrasis, the singularity of the aesthetic, the actuality of the social, the indeterminacy of sense, and the materiality of the signifier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith philosophical precision and poetic ?lan, one of Baudelaire's finest translators reconstructs what we thought we knew about \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e from the ground up, revealing the dialectical logic at the heart of this major work of modern literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Concordia University, Montr?al, where he is founding director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Brown \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Concordia University, Montréal, where he is founding director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the translator of Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil \u003c\/i\u003e(Verso, 2024) and the author of \u003ci\u003eRationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritique \u003c\/i\u003e(Fordham, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Fabrication: Materials\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eScience, Materialist Poetics \u003c\/i\u003e(Fordham, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53127087489331,"sku":"9781531514242","price":58.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/7yrjfbrHjh9781531514242.webp?v=1773297572","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/baudelaires-shadow-on-poetic-determination-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}