Victor Hugo, Romancier de l'Abime: New Studies on Hugo's Novels

ISBN-13: 9781900755580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 220 str.

J. A. Hiddleston

Opis

For a long time, Victor Hugo's novels attracted little critical attention in spite of their obvious power and uniqueness. In recent years, however, scholars have returned to Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Miserables, Les Travailleurs de la mer, Quatrevingt-treize and L'Homme qui rit, uncovering the diversity, the thematic and narrative singularity, the shifting ironies and resistance to interpretative closure of works once judged simplistic and based upon 'une sagesse abregee'. The eleven essays in this volume bring together various critical approaches from eminent French, British and American scholars, to provide a new point of departure and to provoke discussion. The contributors range from the most distinguished specialists with world-wide reputations to young scholars at the beginning of their career who none the less have challenging and original things to say about a fascinating and unjustly neglected subject."

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Politics, Family and the Authorial Preconscious in Hugo’s Han d’Islande and Bug-Jargal; 2: L’Intertextualité du Dernier Jour d’un condamné; 3: Notre-Dame de Paris as Cinema: From Myth to Commodity; 4: Circonscription de l’abîme 1; 5: ‘The Dawn of a Hope so Horrible’: Javert and the Absurd; 6: Genèse des formes. Textes et dessins autour des Travailleurs de la mer; 7: ‘Pleine mer, Plein ciel’: The Wave of the Future in Les Travailleurs de la mer; 8: L’Art du costume: L’Homme qui rit ou le drame de l’apparence; 9: Alternance et adhérence des contraires dans Quatrevingt- Treize; 10: Victor Hugo rôdeur de barrières et de frontières 1; 11: Suicide in the Novels of Victor Hugo

O autorze

James Hiddleston