Offers a study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the lyric through a set of intertextual and cultural contexts. This book addresses the consequences of choosing music as a site of dialogue with poetry.
This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.
This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.
This book is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to “modern” listening.