“Á une passente,” 102–15
absence of God, 122
art and, 3
aesthetic evolution of Baudelaire, 140
aesthetics: permanent unfinishedness, 162
of the sublime, 4
aging, entropy and, 56–57
alienation: art and, 141
danger and, 117
flâneur writing, 127
irony and, 140
time as alien other, 162
allegorical atmospherics, 123–24
allegorical encounter, human subjects and, 98–99
allegorical power of statues, 72–75
allegorical supernaturalism, 61
allegory: atmosphere of the city, 98
Benjamin, Walter, 62
decline of the West, 148
disalienation and, 21
figuration and noise, 148
history and, 16–17
ideal end and, 21
“L’Ennemi,” 62
as melancholic reflection, 62
statues, 71–73
as trope of recognition, 21
anonymity: advantages in irony, 135
assumed by poet, 132
atmospherics of, 123–29
disalienation and, 117–18
fait divers, 127–28
Le Spleen de Paris, 125
poet’s aura, 129–32
anticipatory noise, 107
apostrophe: “Á une passente,” 107
“Le Cygne,” 78–79
preterition and, 113
“Arbor Anecdotes” (University of Michigan), 158
art: the aesthetic and, 3
alienation and, 141
de-sacralization, 5
Le Spleen de Paris, 124–25
modern, 4
of proximity, 27–28
redemptiveness, 18–19
artificial supernaturalism: fetish aesthetics and, 44–45
time and, 53
artistic form, 27
atmosphere, 1–2
awareness, 2
“Le Cygne” and, 79–88
weather and, 1–2
atmospherics, 22
allegorical, 123–24
of anonymity, 123–29
ironic, 123–29
modern beauty as atmospherics of the city, 160–61
of noise, 23–24
poetics of veracity, 161–62
aura, poet’s, 129–32
authorial absence, 128–29
awareness, mobilized awareness, 11
Baudelaire, Charles: “Á une passente,” 102–15
aesthetic evolution, 140
death, 155
Gautier, Théophile, and, 37–38
“Je n’ai pas oublié . . .,” 27–31
“L’Ennemi,” 56–58
“Le Cygne,” 77–88, 150–53, 165–69
“Le mauvais vitrier,” 32–33
Le Spleen de Paris, xii, 8, 115, 124–26, 142–45, 154, 159–60
Les Fleurs du Mal, xii
“Les sept vieillards,” 92–102, 169–72
letter to Arsène Houssaye, 126, 133
“Perte d’auréole,” 129–36
supernaturalism, xi
turn to prose poetry, 21
beauty: as the desirable, 26–27
fetish aesthetics and, 25
fetishization, xi
bekannt, 99–100
Benjamin, Walter: allegory, 62
Andenken, 79
Boileau, 161–62
bourgeoisie, indoor dwellers and, 9
flâneur journalism, 156
Cardonne-Arlyck, Elizabeth, 161
poetics of time, 162
categories of encounters, 136–37
Le Spleen de Paris, 159–60
chiasmic reading, 77
cosmos and, 111
disalienation and, 86
“Les sept vieillards,” 92–94
narrative structure and, 83
Christophe, Ernest, 76
city: as artificial environment, 126
crowds and, 93
daylight specters, 93
inhabitedness, 94
civitas, 92–93
Commendatore in Don Giovanni, 72–73
conscious experience: absence from self, 110–11
and unconscious, 5
consciousness, disalienation and, 141–42
constitutive disorder, 143–44
construction sites, 152
crowd: dreams and, 93
electricity of, 8
danger, entropy and, 147–48
Das Kapital (Marx), 26
daylight specters, 90–93
death: Baudelaire’s, 155
death of the author, 150, 160–61
eternity and, 99
denial, disequilibrium and, 99
desire, sublimation, 2
allegory and, 21
anonymity and, 117–18
consciousness and, 141–42
events and, 101–2
“Le Cygne” and, 79–88
melancholia and, 98–99
mimesis and, 128
modern beauty and, 114
modernity and, 154–55
poetry as agent, 161
uncanny and, 5
discourse, modern founders, 162
disenchantment, 3
disequilibrium, denial and, 99
disharmony, noise and, 54
disillusionment, 54–55
disorder: aesthetics of, 116
chantier, 152–53
Don Giovanni, Commendatore statue, 72–73
dreams, crowds and, 93
Dreams of Speaking (Jones), 9–11
electricity of crowd, 8
encounters, 59
categories, 136–37
Le Spleen de Paris, 126
energy, 8
danger and, 147–48
history and, 20
negentropic harmony and, 18–19
negentropy and, 153
perpetual entropic flux, 147, 152
perpetual negentropic flux, 152
“Perte d’auréole,” 129
the sacred and, 55
erotic fetishism, 26
eternity, death and, 99
eventful time, 57–58
events, disalienation and, 101–2
everyday, 146–47
everyday ghosts, 90–92
historical time and, 102
indeterminacy, 91–92
evil: time and, 60–61
transcendence and, 122–23
failure, 23–24
fait divers, 127–28
Fargue, Léon-Paul, 115–18
fetish aesthetics, 4
desirability, 140
erotic fetishism and, 26
fetishism of commodities, 26
ideal beauty, 25
modernity and, 140–41
noise and, 44
paradoxical character, 18–19
religious fetishism and, 26
sculpture and, 67–68
supernaturalism, artificial, 44–45
wonderment and, 26
fetish objects, sublimation of desire and, 2
fetishism: aesthetic fetishism, 2
commodity fetishism, 5–6
countryside versus modern environment, 26
fetishization: of beauty, xi
proximity and, 29
feuilleton, 156
flâneur writing, 126–28, 151, 155–57
“Arbor Anedcotes” (University of Michigan), 158
bricolage, 156
New York Times “Metropolitan Diary,” 157–59
Flaubert, Gustav, xi
forains, 8–9
forgetting, time and, 28–29
artistic, 27
physical, 27
formal practices embodying noise, 148
forme, 27
founders of modern discourse, 162
fusée, 61–62
Gautier, Théophile, xi
“Vieux de la vieille,” 90–92
genres, 143–45
function, 148
Houssaye letter, 149
lyric, 149–50
new, 147
violation, 150
ghosts: everyday ghosts, 90–92
Gautier’s, 92
God: absence, 122
irony and, 122–23
harmonian supernaturalism, 61
harmony, aesthetics of, 116
historical time, everyday time and, 102
history: allegory and, 16–17
entropy and, 20
events and, 146–47
“Le Cygne” and, 79–88
noise and, 8
puppet master of people, 64
urban existence as, 18–19
Houssaye, Arsène, 149
human negentropy, 152
ideal beauty, 25
indeterminacy of everyday, 91–92
indifferentiation, 53–54
indoor dwellers, bourgeoisie and, 9
inhabitedness of the city, 94
ironic distancing, 141
ironic immanence, 61
ironic spleen versus allegorical melancholy, 124
irony, 17–18
advantages of anonymity, 135
alienation and, 140
atmospherics of, 123–29
figuration and noise, 148
God and, 122–23
Houssaye letter, 133
Le Spleen de Paris, 142–43
modernity and, 140–41
poetic prose and, 22–23
poet’s aura and, 132
pseudosupernaturalism and, 139
Romantic, 60
spleen pole, 21
transparency and, 139–40
as trope of recognition, 21
“Je n’ai pas oublié . . .,” 27–31
Jones, Gail, Dreams of Speaking, 9–11
“L’Ennemi,” 56–58
allegory and, 62
language: noise anxiety, 11
of statues, 71–72
disalienation and, 79–88
English, 167–69
French, 165–67
history and, 79–88
narrative structure, 83
rhyme, 82–83
urban atmospherics and, 79–88
“Le mauvais vitrier,” 32–33, 136–45
alienated encounter and, 115
anonymity, 125
art, 124–25
as critical dossier, 160
encounters, 126
energy, 8
heterogeneity of, 159
irony in, 142–43
as poetic chantier, 159–60
as practical joke, 144–45
Les Fleurs du Mal, xii
posthumous edition, 143
“Les sept vieillards,” 92–102, 169–72
libido intelligendi, 2–3
love, pain of surgery and, 105–7
lyric genres, 149–50
Maclean, Marie, 142–43
Marx, Karl, Das Kapital, 26
material commotion, 11
melancholy: allegorical versus ironic spleen, 124
disalienation and, 98–99
modernity and, 140–41
modes, 124
memory, time and, 153
messages, noise and, 59
metaphor, 53–54
“Metropolitan Diary” (New York Times), 157–59
mimesis, 128
mobilized awareness, 11
modern art, 4
veracity, 163
modern beauty: as atmospherics of the city, 160–61
preterition and, 114–15
modern founders of discourse, 162
modernity: Baudelaire’s work as monument to, 154
beginnings, 6
disalienation and, 154–55
fetish aesthetics and, 140–41
irony and, 140–41
melancholy and, 140–41
noise and, 9
natural supernaturalism, 4
nausea, noise and, 100–1
negentropy, 18–19
entropy and, 153
human, 152
perpetual negentropic flux, 152
Nerval, xi
New York Times, “Metropolitan Diary,” 157–59
noise: anticipatory, 107
atmospherics, 23–24
background, 7
deafening street, 7
disharmony and, 54
of entropy, time and, 60–61
formal practices, 148
history and, 8
messages and, 59
modern connotations, 7–8
nausea, 100–1
poetry and, 43–49
rhetorical practices, 148
time and, 8
urban modernity and, 9
value of, 6–7
weather and, 8
noise anxiety, language and, 11
noisy supernaturalism, 61
noisy writing, 148–49
the ordinary, 129–30
original sin, 147–48
the other, poetry and, xii
pain of surgery and love, 105–7
painting, 3–4
permanent unfinishedness, 162
perpetual entropic flux, 147
perpetual negentropic flux, 152
“Perte d’auréole,” 129–36
Petits Poèms en prose, 143
physical form, 27
poetic noise, harmonious sound and, 30
poetic prose, irony and, 22–23
poetics of time, 162
poetics of veracity, 161–62
poetry: as agent of disalienation, 161
noise and, 43–49
verse poetry and irony, 21
poetry’s other, xii
poet’s aura, 129–32
modern beauty and, 114–15
process time, 57–58
proximity, 29
pseudosupernaturalism, irony and, 139
readability: allegorical objects and, 64–65
noisy writing, 148–49
sculpture and, 69–71
urban encounter and, 117
recognition: allegory and, 21
irony and, 21
reflectiveness, 80–81
religious fetishism, 26
repression, return of the repressed, 161
rhetorical practices signifying noise, 148
rhyme, 44–48
“Le Cygne,” 82–83
poetic indifferentiation and, 53–54
rhyming character of statues, 75–77
rivers: streets as, 11–16. See also the
Seine Romantic irony, 60
Romantic sublime, xi
supernaturalism and, 25
the sacred, entropy and, 55
sacred function of sculpture, 72–75
Sainte-Beuve, Charles, 151
sculpture, 3–4
fetish aesthetics and, 67–68
haunting the living, 74
imperiousness of sculptural injunction, 73–74
readability and, 69–71
sacred function, 72–75
viewer and, 68–69, 77. See also statues
Second Empire, xii
“Le Cygne” and, 82
the Seine, 12–14
self-governance, loss, 106–7
self-presence, loss, 110–11
spatial proximity. See proximity statues, 31
allegorical power, 72–75
Baudelaire’s catalogue of allegorical types, 71–72
Christophe, Ernest, 76
Commendatore, 72–73
gesture, 71–72
language of, 71–72
modern city and, 71
as noisy phenomenon, 69
rhyming character, 75–77
time and, 67–71. See also sculpture
Stephens, Sonya, 142–43
stepping into the street, 14–15
streets as rivers, 11–16
the sublime: aesthetics of, 4
Romantic sublime, xi
subliminalism, Baudelairean atmospherics, 4
sun, 31–32
allegorical, 61
harmonian versus noisy, 61
natural supernaturalism, 4
the ordinary and, 129–30
pseudo-supernaturalism, 139
Romantic sublime and, 25. See also artificial supernaturalism
surgery’s pain and love, 105–7
survivor figures, 111
symbole, 130
time: as alien other, 162
chantier and, 152–53
Commendatore statue, 73
as destructive, 61
destructiveness, 56–57
as enemy of life, 70
entropy and, 28–29
eternity, 99
eventful time, 57–58
everyday time and historical time, 102
as evil, 60–61
forgetting and, 28–29
history and, 124
as irony, 124
“L’Ennemi,” 57–58
memory and, 153
noise of entropy and, 60–61
poetics of, 162
process time, 57–58
solidarity of passing time, 101
statues and, 67–71
subservience to, 106–7
weather and, 101
transcendent: disalienation and, 55
evil, 60–61
translations, xiii
transparency, irony and, 139–40
uncanny, disalienation and, 5
unconscious experience, and conscious, 5
urban diary, xii, 143–44, 150–51
urban encounter, readability and, 117
urban existence as historical phenomenon, 18–19
urban modernity, noise and, 9
urban supernaturalism, xii
verse poetry, ideal end, 21
“Vieux de la vieille” (Gautier), 90–92
weather, 1–2
time and, 101
wonderment, fetish aesthetics, 26
writing, noisy, 148–49