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What Will You Say Tonight: the Aesthetic Hold of Night in Baudelaire
In the poem, “‘Que diras-tu ce soir…’” (‘What will you say tonight…’”), in Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire creates a dialogue between the speaker, the speaker’s soul, and his heart, which almost […]
Reorientation and the Implications of Directionality
Fernand Léger, The Compass (1926) “To understand what the work of art says to us is therefore a self-encounter. But as an encounter with the authentic, as a familiarity that […]
Waltzing with Baudelaire: Musicality and Temporality
The relationship between symbolist poetry and music has been well documented. Mallarmé wrote at length about the sonorous qualities of music that characterize his writing in “Crisis in Poetry,” saying, […]
