The Other Edge of Literature: The Reinterpretation of Baudelaire's “Modernity-Genesis Field” in <i>Les Fleurs du mal</i>

HE Guangshun

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020326

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HE Guangshun. The Other Edge of Literature: The Reinterpretation of Baudelaire's “Modernity-Genesis Field” in Les Fleurs du mal[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 301-317. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020326

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HE Guangshun. The Other Edge of Literature: The Reinterpretation of Baudelaire's “Modernity-Genesis Field” in Les Fleurs du mal[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 301-317. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020326

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The Other Edge of Literature: The Reinterpretation of Baudelaire's “Modernity-Genesis Field” in Les Fleurs du mal

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020326

HE Guangshun

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Received Date: 2019-03-17
Rev Recd Date: 2020-04-10
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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The “modernity” revealed in Baudelaire's work Les Fleurs du mal can not only be examined singly within the internal development of Western civilization, but can also be seen within the spirit of the genesis field that Chinese literature stressed, in order to help reveal its unique quality as a model text in the beginning of modernist literature. The spirit of the genesis field in Chinese literature developed and formed in classical times, and it mainly refers to the harmonious state of Property, Divinity, and Humanity emphasized by literature as a non-territory cultural phenomenon and its perceptual intuition of life. Baudelaire's “modernity-genesis field” in Les Fleurs du mal reconstructs the relationship of Thing-Person-God after this relationship is broken by industrialization and capitalism. In the Western classical literature dominated by the ontology of metaphysics, this creation of a “modernity-genesis field” penetrates into the veins and bones of modern civilization and creates a new literary style that is filled with internal differences and contradictions. Namely, the discovery of the city's evil in the absolute goodness of anti-metaphysics; the revelation of the anonymity and concealment of the urban masses in the dictatorial authority of the anti-philosopher king; the practice of symbolism in anti-classical and anti-romantic writings—these formed the three dimensions of Baudelaire's genesis field of poetry, political and cultural, which deserve further exploration.
- Baudelaire,
- Les Fleurs du mal,
- other edge of literature,
- “modernity-genesis f?ield”

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