Generic Baggage: Encountering other people in "À une passante" and "Les veuves"

TY - JOUR

T1 - Generic Baggage

T2 - Encountering other people in "À une passante" and "Les veuves"

AU - Gubbins, Sarah

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - Baudelaire's exploitation and challenging of generic conventions have implications for readers' impressions of a text, including their perceptions of the other people with whom the speaker comes into contact. This article explores these issues in relation to two short texts: "À une passante" (a sonnet evoking one of the most celebrated Baudelairean encounters) and "Les veuves" (a poème en prose in which an apparently similar subject is treated very differently). I conclude that generic baggage can be as problematic as the heuristic assumptions we bring to our everyday dealings with other people.

AB - Baudelaire's exploitation and challenging of generic conventions have implications for readers' impressions of a text, including their perceptions of the other people with whom the speaker comes into contact. This article explores these issues in relation to two short texts: "À une passante" (a sonnet evoking one of the most celebrated Baudelairean encounters) and "Les veuves" (a poème en prose in which an apparently similar subject is treated very differently). I conclude that generic baggage can be as problematic as the heuristic assumptions we bring to our everyday dealings with other people.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85044033909

U2 - 10.1353/esp.2018.0000

DO - 10.1353/esp.2018.0000

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85044033909

SN - 0014-0767

VL - 58

SP - 8

EP - 16

JO - Esprit Createur

JF - Esprit Createur

IS - 1

ER -