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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay aims to contribute comparative points of contact between two influential figures of nineteenth century aesthetic reflection; namely, Victor Hugo's artful considerations on architecture in his novel Notre-Dame...
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From: Studies in Romanticism[(essay date fall 1993) In the following essay, Coombs suggests that L'année terrible should be considered a great epic, achieving status similar to Milton's Paradise Lost.] "... coupable aussi moi d'innocence ..." ("A...
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From: L'Esprit Créateur[(essay date summer 1989) In the following essay, Ferguson examines the symbolic and practical significance of literary expressions and assessments of the urbanization of Paris following the French Revolution.] On the...
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From: Victor Hugo’s Les misérables and the Novels of the Grotesque[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Masters-Wicks examines Hugo’s blurring of the grotesque and the sublime in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame through his juxtaposition of private and public spectacle. Her analysis...
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From: Victor Hugo[In the following excerpt from her biography of Hugo, Duclaux discusses Notre-Dame de Paris in the context of Hugo's career, praising his graceful prose and recognizing the prominent role the cathedral serves in the...
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From: The NationFrom the falling off which his two subsequent novels show, Victor Hugo no doubt reached his high-water mark in “Les Misérables,” which, after all deductions have been made, is a remarkable and, perhaps, a great work. It...
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From:Discourse (Detroit, MI) (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWho would pride oneself on a "complete" experience of love? Only a monster of multiplicity, an octopus-man endowed with as many tentacles as the innumerable desires that give an appearance of meaning and...
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From: The North American Review[In this excerpt, Spofford offers a laudatory review of Hugo's verse up to and including Les châtiments.] [If] the genius of Victor Hugo is great as a novelist, it is still greater as a poet. And he seems to be almost...
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From: Blackwood's Magazine[As] the present critic does not feel much sympathy with Victor Hugo's works, in spite of their very remarkable qualities, and their transcendant picturesqueness, he is desirous, while paying every deserved tribute to...
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From: The CosmopolitanTo the nineteenth century in France [Victor Hugo] was what Voltaire had been to the eighteenth. That is to say, an absolutely momentous power, extending so far in so many directions as to pass outside the bounds of...
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From: Romance Languages Annual[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Sherak declares that Hugo's portrayal of la bande noire--a group of thieves who demolished old monuments to sell the stone--in his poem "La Bande noire" suggests an inextricable...
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From: Cimarron Review[(essay date October 1987) In the following essay, Cismaru presents Victor Hugo as a writer preoccupied with the struggle for human liberty.] The year 1985 marked the centenary of Victor Hugo's death. In France, and...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 24, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe abundance of modern literature dealing with the topic of war makes it incumbent upon the writer of this article to limit the scope of his undertaking. The innumerable angles of discussion include the religious,...
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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies[(essay date fall 1990) In the following essay, Chaitin connects the symbolic use of stonework, alchemy, gypsies, and hieroglyphics in Notre-Dame de Paris and examines how the structure of the novel reflects the same...
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From: L'Esprit Créateur[(essay date fall 1976) In the following essay, Howarth counts Hugo as the only French Romantic dramatist to have succeeded in writing plays infused with the Romantic sensibility and aesthetic.] It would hardly be an...
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From: The American Society Legion of Honor Magazine[In the essay below, Riffaterre offers his interpretation of Hugo's philosophy of poetics.] As any poetics must be, Hugo's is inseparable from a certain theory of inspiration, since the nature of his inspiration...
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From: Neophilologus[(essay date January 1994) In the following essay, Moskos argues that issues of gender identity in Hernani reflect political and cultural anxieties in Romantic-era France.] Twenty years ago in the journal Modern...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the fifty years that separated the publication of Han d'Islande (1823) from that of Quatrevingt-treize (1874), Victor Hugo's use of the novelistic form in many ways punctuated rather than propelled his writing...
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From: Italian Quarterly[(essay date winter-fall 2000) In the following essay, Clubb studies Hugo's treatment of the motif of monstrosity in the character of Quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris.] No one reads Hugo nowadays, they say. The point...
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From: Baudelaire as a Literary Critic: Selected Essays[A French poet and critic, Baudelaire is best known for his poetry collection Les fleurs de mal, which is considered among the most influential works of French verse. In the following excerpt, which was originally...