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Figuring Transcendence in Les Misérables: Hugo's Romantic Sublime

Figuring Transcendence in Les Misérables: Hugo's Romantic Sublime

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0271078758
ISBN13: 9780271078755
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Sep 5 2017
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

First published in 1994, Figuring Transcendence in Les Misérables is a book-length study of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Kathryn M. Grossman's authoritative command of Hugo's work and Hugo criticism enables her to situate the novelist's masterpiece in relation both to his earlier novels--up to and including Notre-Dame de Paris--and to the poetry published during his exile under the Second Empire. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's theory of metaphor and on Thomas Weiskel's analysis of the romantic sublime, Grossman illustrates how the novel's motifs and structures correspond to a closely connected set of ethical, spiritual, political, and aesthetic concerns.

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