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In this new reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's text serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the novel and the moral fable. She shows how the text probes the fundamental tension between individuality and conformity, powerfully symbolized by the giant metropolis.Evans, Margery A. is the author of 'Baudelaire and Intertextuality Poetry at the Crossroads' with ISBN 9780521365086 and ISBN 0521365082.
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