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EBOOK Later Novels of Victor Hugo:Variations on the Politics and Poetics of Transcendence
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191636431
EAN: 0E738BB0EB
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Stron: 304
Data wydania: 2012
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This study places the last three novels of Victor Hugo's maturity - Les        Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Quatrevingt-Treize (1874)        - within the context of his artistic development after the success of Les        Misrables (1862). By situating these historical narratives in relation        to each other, to all of Hugo's previous fiction, and to a number of poetic and        critical works published in exile and in the initial years ofthe Third Republic, it        illuminates the final structural and thematic shifts from a poetics of harmony to        one of transcendence. As in Les Misrables, the disharmony associated        with social tumult, apocalyptic vision, and oxymoronic tensions provides an        essential component of the later Hugo's Romantic sublime. Instead of merely        capitalizing onthe runaway success of Les Misrables by recycling its        prominent features, however, each novel makes an original contribution to the        political and aesthetic trajectory inscribed by the entire oeuvre. Each testifies as        well to the wizardry of Hugo's own 'special effects' that contribute to his        story-telling genius. Such effects, especially the dizzying spatial optics and        manipulation of temporal dimensions, function not as mere playful gimmicks or        novelistic flourishesbut as strategies for figuring and communicating the ideal,        both political and artistic. The unique interplay of poetic and historical discourse        in each text reconfigures our disordered experience of the world into something far        more coherent: a construction of meaning that strives to change perceptions and to        promote socialaction.

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