Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics
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In an influenTial 1985 essay, fRedRic Jameson aRgues ThaT The nineteenth-century poems of Charles Baudelaire foreshadow de- velopments in twentieth-century styles, anticipating not only a high modernist “dissolution of the referent” but also a postmodernist “world of the image, of textual free-play, the world of consumer so- ciety and its simulacra” (255–56). Jameson’s reading necessitates that the more old-fashioned elements of Baudelaire’s poetics be set aside:
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