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      Reading Baudelaire with Adorno

      Professor Joseph Acquisto

      "An innovative reading of Baudelaire's poetry and criticism in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno"--

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      Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

      Professor Joseph Acquisto

      Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.

      Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during and shortly after…

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      Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures

      Joseph Acquisto

      Examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Crusoe, has been reinterpreted and appropriated in nineteenth through twenty-first century French literature.

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      French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music

      Joseph Acquisto

      Offers a study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the lyric through a set of intertextual and cultural contexts. This…

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      Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche

      Joseph Acquisto

      This book is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to modern listening.

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      Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

      Joseph Acquisto

      This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.

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      French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music

      Joseph Acquisto

      Offers a study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the lyric through a set of intertextual and cultural contexts. This…

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      Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche

      Joseph Acquisto

      This book is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to modern listening.

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      Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures

      Joseph Acquisto

      Examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Crusoe, has been reinterpreted and appropriated in nineteenth through twenty-first century French literature.

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      Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

      Joseph Acquisto

      This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.

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      Reading Baudelaire with Adorno

      Professor Joseph Acquisto

      Reading Baudelaire with Adorno examines Charles Baudelaire's oeuvre - including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings - in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the…

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      The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy

      Professor Joseph Acquisto (Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, USA)

      Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their…

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      The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy

      Professor Joseph Acquisto (Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, USA)

      Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their…

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      Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance

      Professor Joseph Acquisto (Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, USA)

      This book shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is [a] dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question … continues to blur the boundary between…

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      Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance

      Professor Joseph Acquisto (Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, USA)

      This book shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is [a] dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question … continues to blur the boundary between…

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      Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France: Critical Reflections

      This volume of essays focuses on how poets approach reading as a notion and a practice that both inform their writing and their relationship to their readers. The nineteenth century…

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