The concept of an ideal city which is closely linked with utopian ideas and totalitarian
trends and occurs in various cultures, including Christianity (as an image
of Heavenly Jerusalem that diff ers from primary Eden as it experienced history and civilization) is a very broad concept serving various and often contradictory
outlooks. My presentation is a comparative analysis of two poems which border
on modern thinking: Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Baudelaire’s Parisian Dream.
Both poems, which use the oneiric poetics and urban topic to reveal a specific
concept of aesthetic and axiological perfection, shall be presented in the context
of the changes in the way the city was perceived in the 19th century resulting in
the acceptance of the ideal of the city as a symbol of modern identity and, particularly
in the avant-garde thinking, as a matrix of a new ideal of human sensitivity
development.
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Wydział Polonistyki : Katedra Komparatystyki Literackiej