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LES CONTEMPLATIONS of Victor Hugo: An Allegory of the Creative Process
By (Author) Suzanne Nash
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
841.8
Hardback
244
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
Victor Hugo's work presents the reader with a paradox nowhere more apparent than in the collection of more than 150 lyric poems entitled Les Contemplations. Although he insisted upon structural unity, his complex artistic creations often seem disordered and digressive. Suzanne Nash examines this contradiction, and she proposes here a new approach t