Victor Hugo et la vaste ouverture du possible

Essai sur l'ontologie romantique

by Didier Philippot

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Extent: 254 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Philosophy

Series: Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviemistes

Series volume number: 71, 2

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2017)

ISBN: 9782406063858

Price: $46.00

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This book studies the notion of possibility in Victor Hugo’s novels and philosophical prose from his time in exile. An entire aesthetic-not only of dreaming and the image but also of fiction-finds extraordinary legitimacy in its proximity to the possible.

Didier Philippot est professeur de litterature francaise a l’universite de Strasbourg. Specialiste du roman et de la nouvelle au XIX siecle, il consacre notamment ses travaux a l’esthetique et a l’ontologie romantiques des marges du reel (l’invisible, le possible, l’imaginaire).

  • By (author) Didier Philippot