AN ATMOSPHERICS OF THE CITY: BAUDELAIRE AND THE POETICS OF NOISE
Book ID/图书代码： 04831114B74705
English Summary/英文概要： What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?
An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire’s evolution from a writer who practices a form of fetishizing aesthetics in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who perceives background noise and disorder-the city’s version of a transcendent atmosphere-as evidence of the malign work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction.
Analyzing this shift, particularly as evidenced in Tableaux parisiens and Le Spleen de Paris, Ross Chambers shows how Baudelaire’s disenchantment with the politics of his day and the coincident rise of overpopulation, poverty, and Haussmann’s modernization of Paris influenced the poet’s work to conceive a poetry of allegory, one with the power to alert and disalienate its otherwise inattentive reader whose senses have long been dulled by the din of his environment.
Providing a completely new and original understanding of both Baudelaire’s ethics and his aesthetics, Chambers reveals how the shift from themes of the supernatural in Baudelaire to ones of alienation allowed a new way for him to articulate and for his fellow Parisians to comprehend the rapidly changing conditions of the city and, in the process, to invent a "modern beauty" from the realm of suffering and the abject as they embodied forms of urban experience.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當歷史將詩人從沉思於自然的美及莊嚴之物的人，轉為以城市的擁擠喧嚷來協調藝術的實踐之人，詩意之美會如何變化？
《城市的氣息》追溯波特萊爾的演化，從實踐對美學的迷戀，在詩作中美化平庸，轉而領受背景噪音和混亂——城市視野中的超驗氣氛——將其當作時間、歷史、終極毀滅的超驗之神的惡意傑作。
羅斯．錢伯斯分析波特萊爾的轉變，這特別表現在波特萊爾的《巴黎圖畫》(Tableaux parisiens)及《巴黎的憂鬱》(Le Spleen de Paris)。錢伯斯描寫波特萊爾的政治覺醒，其時代出現人口過剩與貧窮問題，及巴黎城市規劃師奧斯曼(Haussmann)的現代化，詩人構思寓言詩時，這些都產生重大影響，他的讀者的感知因長期的環境噪音而變得遲鈍，寓言詩學擁有警惕的力量，並讓漫不經心的讀者除去疏離感。
此書提供全新原創的觀點，談波特萊爾的道德觀及美學，錢伯斯展現波特萊爾的關注如何從超自然轉變為疏離主題，這些讓波特萊爾能精準描寫巴黎的劇烈變化，並讓巴黎人了解情況。在這悲慘與受難的區域之中出現一種「現代美」，包含城市經驗的各種形式。(Ramona)
Awards/获奖情况：The book, moving seamlessly between close analyses of poems and broader theoretical contextualization, is a model for scholarship in the rigorous and delicate attention it pays to the texture of poems; the ease of move between singular details and universal categories; the depth and clarity of thought expressed in precise prose; deep erudition condensed into concise footnotes that keep to the essential, and the inventive receptivity toward texts that presents a new interface with one of the most canonical authors of the Western culture. --Claire Lyu, University of Virginia
"The title of Ross Chambers’ brilliant work encapsulates its central paradox: it defines poetry not as music, but as noise; not as formal order, but as what cuts against?? it: its atmospherics."--Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Vassar College
About the Author/作者介绍： 作者 羅斯．錢伯斯 Ross Chambers
密西根大學比較文學系名譽退休教授。著有《不合時宜的干涉：愛滋病書寫、見證及縈繞的修辭作用》(Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting)、《面對：愛滋病日記與作者之死》(Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author)及《文學與寫作的旋律：早期法國現代主義的反抗模式》(Literature, and The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism)
Ross Chambers is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting, Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author, Loiterature, and The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism.
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