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Article: Baudelaire: At the Limits and Beyond.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Baudelaire: At the Limits and Beyond. By NICOLAE BABUTS. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 182 pp. 28 [pounds sterling].
Nicolae Babuts's book presents itself as 'an attempt to define the coherence that is characteristic of [Baudelaire's] texts' (p. 13) by adopting a cognitive approach to literature, that focuses on the texts and their interpretation and moves away from 'ideologically driven' approaches. Babuts gives a detailed and complex presentation of the cognitive approach in his introduction, emphasizing in particular the importance of the interpreter of the text in the 'equation of meaning' (p. 13), and ...