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This paper is the first attempt to interpret the visual 'construemes' by the constructivist poet Alexei N. Chicherin, published in the anthology Mena vsekh (Moscow, 1924).
Svetlana G. Gorbovskaya
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Deixa o velho Platão franzir seu olho austero ou Queerificando Baudelaire
As flores do mal (1857) correspondem ao monumento, por excelência, do ambivalente gênio baudelairiano. Escritos ao longo de vinte e sete anos, os 166 poemas reunidos nesta compilação antológica expressam, segundo Benjamin, o canto de cisne do último ...
Aléxia Bretas
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Life without theory: biography as an exemplar of philosophical understanding
This article discusses recent attempts to provide the genre of biography with a philosophical, theoretical foundation and attempts to show that such efforts are fundamentally misguided.
Monk, Ray
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Axiological pessimism, procreation and collective responsibility
Abstract A form of pessimism can support the claim that we have a collective duty to prevent the creation of additional human beings. More specifically, I argue that axiological pessimism, which suggests that human existence is overall bad (for humans) because of a form of evil it causes, implies that we should end human procreation, provided that we ...
Andrea Sauchelli
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“I would gladly write only for the dead”: success and reception in Baudelaire
This article seeks to approach the themes of success and reception of and in Charles Baudelaire’s work. Concerning reception, it is about the author’s perspective, his expectations regarding his work and the reader of the nineteenth century.
Gilles Jean Abes
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Resistance and persistence: on the fortunes and reciprocal international influences of French romanticism [PDF]
Resistance and Persistence: On the Fortunes and Reciprocal International Influences of French Romanticism Abstract This article addresses ambivalence toward Romanticism on the part of Romantic artists and writers active in France - a group that includes ...
Ribner, Jonathan
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Camille Silvy: A Photographer of Modern Life [PDF]
Camille Silvy (1834-1910) enjoyed a major reputation as a photographer in Paris and London in the period 1858-68. He was a photographer of modern life, in the sense introduced by his contemporary, Charles Baudelaire. Silvy's best-known work, 'River Scene,
Haworth-Booth, Mark
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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This article focuses on the literary, political, philosophical, and musical dialogue between Dostoevsky and his ardent admirer Thomas Mann, primarily between the novels Demons and Doctor Faustus.
Alexandre F. Stroev
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Baudelaire Laboratory. Brief History of a Project by Walter Benjamin
The article intends to retrace, from a historical-philological point of view, the main steps of Walter Benjamin’s unfinished research and works, conducted during his later years, dedicated to Charles Baudelaire.
Marina Montanelli
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