Pour une poétique du seuil chez Baudelaire
For a poetics of the threshold in Baudelaire's work

Author(s): Liliana Foşalău
Subject(s): French Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Baudelaire; passage; threshold; transgression; space; poetics; poetry;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we aim to show that Baudelaire’s poetry can also be read through the perspective of a threshold poetry. Whether we talk about lyric poetry or about the one that we find in his prose poems, we can easily identify a recurrence of the threshold type elements. In this semantic category can be found the doors, windows, balconies, fences, harbours, as well as elements that don’t have material consistency and that illustrate at the highest level the metaphysics and the threshold poetry. We will include in this second category elements such as the dream, the oblivion, love, travel, death and artificial paradises.

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