Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the Fleurs Du Mal and Spleen de Paris - Tapa dura

"This is a bold and original study of Baudelaire's literary art. Professor Runyon meticulously challenges the still dominant view of Baudelaire's prose poems, Le Spleen de Paris, as a somewhat random collection, and he refutes those interpreters skeptical of the unity and internal coherence of Baudelaire's poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal. All in all, it is a brilliant and well-documented response to the present state of Baudelaire studies seen from the perspective of textual coherence." --Edward K. Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Brandeis University

"Randolph Runyon is a well-known writer on French literature and culture, and his Intratextual Baudelaire is a serious work, carefully argued, which will make a significant contribution to discussions of the organization of Baudelaire's two books." --Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University

Randolph Paul Runyon is professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.