Product Description: How does Baudelaire's prose poetry tell (human/modern/literary) time, and how do time and narrative tell the story of the poem and prose? Using textual analysis informed by a wide range of scholarship on Baudelaire, modernity, and narrative theory, Krueger argues that what lies beneath the genre's obvious evocation of formal and literary tensions (between verse and prose, between the lyric and the narrative), are larger questions of immortality and death...read more