Abstract
This careful, clearly focused study delimits the essential characteristics of Baudelaire's Petits Poèmes en prose, no longer neglected by scholars, as the author explains in her helpful preface. In four large chapters, well documented with textual analyses (the citations remaining in French) and generous references to previous interpreters, Sonya Stephens advances our understanding of the polemics internal to the prose poems, using key texts to open these self-reflective fables (as I prefer to call them) to more sophisticated readings, showing particularly how Baudelaire deploys his political, ethical, literary, and esthetic values through various modes of irony.
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