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Knowledge of Nothing: On Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil

Nathan Brown, Associate Professor of French and Canada Research Chair in Poetics of Concordia University, Montreal will give a guest lecture on Baudelaire. In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void: How you would please me, o night! without these stars Whose light speaks a language we know! For I seek the void, and the black, and the bare! …
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