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Book Title: Baudelaire and the Aesthetics of Bad Faith
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Susan Blood
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: European / General, Poetry, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Philosophy
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages