| dc.contributor.author | Scott, MC | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-15T13:10:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-04-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The position of "L'étranger" at the very beginning of Baudelaire's collection of poèmes en prose gives it the status of a frame: it establishes the terms of the reading contract. This essay reads the text as the dramatization of a kind of interpersonal encounter that is repeatedly described in the prose poems, and that may also be programmed by these texts: an encounter that ostensibly confirms but tacitly contests the mind-reader's powers of inference. This reading is supported by reference to two previously overlooked intertexts: Arsène Houssaye's Le roi Voltaire (1858) and Gustave Merlet's 1858 critique of this biography. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 58 (1), pp. 32-47 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/esp.2018.0003 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30999 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press | en_GB |
| dc.rights | © 2018 L’Esprit Créateur | |
| dc.title | Baudelaire’s “L’Étranger” and the Limits of Mind-Reading | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0014-0767 | |
| dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Johns Hopkins University Press via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | L'Esprit Createur: a critical quarterly of French literature | en_GB |
