The World of Baudelaire
FREN 493-04 / 586-01
Charles Baudelaire:
- Parisian Prowler
- First Modernist Poet
- Daring art critic
- First Modernist Poet
- Daring art critic
In this course, we see how ...
- One France’s best-known poets and art critics captures the dynamic of a rapidly complex world not unlike our own.
- Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal, Tableaux parisiens and his other writings are intertwined with the challenges of the artistic and social environment of the 19th century.
- This outrageous author, whose poems were condemned as a threat to public morality, is considered by many today as the first modernist poet.
Format: active participation, short analysis, presentation, mid-term, final.
Times: T,TR 11-12:15; Fall 2008
Times: T,TR 11-12:15; Fall 2008
