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Article: Baudelaire's 'Le Spleen de Paris': Shifting Perspectives.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2006
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Baudelaire's 'Le Spleen de Paris': Shifting Perspectives. By MARIA C. SCOTT. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 29) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. 238 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-5111-8.
The principal aim of this study of Baudelaire's prose poems is an examination of the shifting perspectives on the viewpoint of the narrator, who, we are frequently reminded, must not be confused with the poet himself. It comprises five chapters on perspectives current in recent criticism: caricature, prostitution, morality, allegory, and aesthetics. The author makes no claim to being exhaustive. Indeed, her approach is consciously limited and partial, focusing on ...