A DRAMATIC READING OF BAUDELAIRE (XII)
Symphonic Poetry (V)
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UNE LECTURE DRAMATIQUE POUR BAUDELAIRE XII Poésie symphonique V Un essai empathique
A DRAMATIC READING OF BAUDELAIRE (XII) Symphonic Poetry (V) The Empathy Method

Author(s): Tuğrul İnal
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Baudelaire; Life; Death; Woman; Paradise; Inferno; The Devil; The Fall from Grace

Summary/Abstract: Tuğrul İNAL studies the works Paris Spleen and Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire and he analyzes the fundamental principles of the author’s philosophy using the Empathy Method that Prof. Inal he himself devised. İnal had his first paper on the empathy method published in the 18th edition of Frankofoni. The second of these papers is being published now in Humanitas in French language. The method referred can be applied to poetry, short stories and drama, it is based on imagery and fiction and in a way it is a rewriting of the text on the explanatory level. It creates a second paradigm text parallel to the original. The reality preached by the original text converts into another realism in the paradigm and is recreated in essence like a myth or a story with a theatrical flair and presentation. In the second text, God, the devil, and women are protagonists, and the story teller-interpreter is discussing on existentialist issues like beauty-ugliness, good-evil, life-death, rise-fall, heaven-hell becomes the person who stages the work. The paradigm text which is a rhetorical aesthetic is an example of a creation of reality and fiction, fantasy and myth.

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 173-184
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French