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What is Speech Interrupting Poetic Prose about?

## Abstract This chapter focuses on the fault line, in Baudelaire’s prose, between the audible and the visual: at the limit of what can be seen is precisely the point at which speech enters the poetic landscape. When the visual has reached the limits of its expressive capacities, the presentation of Truth and the poem’s reliability as a format of expression are shown as a thorny issue, once again demonstrating the problem of the poem as a representative genre pulled between surface gloss and more symptomatic readings. Lying and misrepresentation are the analytical cornerstones of this chapter’s readings. They reveal how Baudelaire’s poetic moment is punctuated with boisterous moments of shock and interruption, and his prose poems’ modernity—felt through speech acts that upend the visual—stakes its claims, loud and clear, amid the age-old tension between sights and sounds in poetry.

Author

Seth Whidden

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192666864

Subjects

Poetry, History, Literary Fiction