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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778341003321

Autore

Greaney Patrick

Titolo

Untimely beggar [[electronic resource] ] : poverty and power from Baudelaire to Benjamin / / Patrick Greaney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8166-5391-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

809.933556

Soggetti

Poverty in literature

Power (Social sciences) in literature

European literature - 19th century - History and criticism

European literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Beggar and the Promised Land of Cannibalism; 1. Impoverished Power; 2. Let's Get Beat Up by the Poor!; 3. Poetic Rebellion in MallarmeĢ; 4. The Transvaluation of Poverty; 5. Rilke and the Aestheticization of Poverty; 6. An Outcast Community; 7. Exposed Interiors and the Poverty of Experience; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin's final texts in the 1930's, Untimely Beggar investigates the coincidence of two modern literary and philosophical interests: representing the poor and representing potential. In doing so, Patrick Greaney offers significant insights into modernity's intense philosophical and literary interest in socioeconomic poverty.