Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil
Editor(s): Laurence M. Porter
Pages: xi & 209 pp.
Published: 2000
ISBN: 9780873527521 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527514 (hardcover)
Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) may be the most influential, and perhaps the greatest, book of lyric poetry in French literature. At once Romantic and modernist, it belongs to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This volume in the MLA's series Approaches to Teaching World Literature is the first devoted to a lyric poet who did not write in English, and it seeks to promote the study, teaching, and enjoyment of this intriguing and sometimes troubling French poet.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Flower of Evil
PART 1: MATERIALS
Laurence M. Porter
- Editions and Translations
- French and Bilingual Editions
- English Editions and Anthologies
- Courses and Course Designs
- Other Disciplines
- Pedagogical Challenges
- Recommended Readings
- Bibliography
- Background Materials
- General Introductions
- Critical Studies
- The Instructor's Library
- Audiovisual Materials
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Prologue: Baudelaire, a Contemporary of Us All
Anna Balakian
Institutional Contexts
Teaching Baudelaire to Advanced High
School Students
Laurence Risser
Engaging with Poetry in AP French:
Fragmentary Perceptions
Ainslie Armstrong McLees
Powers of Evil: Teaching Baudelaire at a
Church-Related University
William Olmsted
Text-Centered Approaches
Baudelaire as an Unknown
Roger Shattuck
Let's Start with Words
Eléonore M. Zimmermann
Using Translation in Explicating Les Fleurs
du Mal: "La Cloche fêlée"
Judd Hubert
From Metrics and Rhymes to Meanings
Peter Schofer
Narrativity in Les Fleurs du Mal
Timothy Unwin
Unfamiliarity and Defamiliarization:
Teaching Les Fleurs du Mal with the
Petits poèmes en prose
Sonya Stephens
Thematic Approaches
Baudelaire and the Poetry of Memory
J. A. Hiddleston
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Perversity
Deborah A. Harter
Cultural Studies
Searching for Swans: Baudelaire's
"Le Cygne"
Richard Terdiman
Gender-Based Approaches
Baudelaire's Sepulchers
Susan L. Wolf
Baudelaire's Lesbian Connections
Gretchen M. Schultz
Religious and Ethical Issues
Teaching the Devil
Jonathan Culler
Teaching the Ethical Baudelaire: Irony
and Insight in Les Fleurs du Mal
Edward K. Kaplan
Computer-Assisted Instruction
Teaching Les Fleurs du Mal with CD-ROM:
Visual and Verbal Art
Rosemary Lloyd
Hypermedia Approaches to Baudelaire's
Poetry
Eugene F. Gray
Conclusion
The Classroom versus Poetry;
or, Teaching Transportation
Ross Chambers
Works Cited
- Further Reference Materials
Index of Works by Baudelaire
Index of Names
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