BAUDELAIRE AND SPAIN

The Baudelaire phenomenon.

In recent times, we see patients who consult numerous doctors in a short time, and do not obtain definitive diagnoses, or effective therapies, ending up increasing their doubts, insecurities, dissatisfactions, and piles of supplementary tests. Despite the fact that this “low resolution medicine” affects more often users of the national public health system (SUS), it also exists in private medic...

Baudelaire, Theoretician of Modern Art

Translation of Reun ar C'halan [René Galand] " Baudelaire, diouganer an arz nevez " , Al Liamm, niv.

Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics

In an influenTial 1985 essay, fRedRic Jameson aRgues ThaT The nineteenth-­century poems of Charles Baudelaire foreshadow de-­ velopments in twentieth-­century styles, anticipating not only a high modernist “dissolution of the referent” but also a postmodernist “world of the image, of textual free-­play, the world of consumer so-­ ciety and its simulacra” (255–56). Jameson’s reading necessitate...

Material Figures: Political Economy, Commercial Culture, and the Aesthetic Sensibility of Charles Baudelaire (book review)

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...