Baudelaire's Prose Poems - The Practice and Politics of Irony - Hardback - 1999

This book considers Baudelaire's prose poetry as an exploration of the duality of the genre. It considers the ironic and parodic aspects of the work and, in the light of Baudelaire's own theories of the comic, argues that his prose poetry is best understood as a form of literary caricature.
Year of publication: 1999
Pagination: 196 pages, bibliography, index
Format: Hardback