LES CONTEMPLATIONS of Victor Hugo —— An Allegory of the Creative Process

----- 寓言的创意过程

ISBN: 9780691616773 出版年：2015 页码：242 Nash, Suzanne Princeton University Press

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 to les contemplations that reveals how it may be read as a unified allegory of hugo's understanding of the creative process. The author's reading heightens the subtleties of individual poems by placing them within the context of the collection. She clarifies the poet's use of rhetorical devices and. Illuminating les contemplations as a metapoetic creation, shows how it can serve as a guide to hugo's other works. The first two chapters present evidence of hugo's narrative intention, place his work within an allegorical tradition, and describe the structure of the allegory.