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Français
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Documents
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1998
Description
The question of the great man is found throughout Victor Hugo 's work, from the monarchist odes of the 1820's, to texts written during the Third Republic, from poetry to novel, from theater to political or critical writings. This question concerns the main dimensions of Hugo 's work. To begin with, aesthetics, as grandeur is so prevalent in Hugo 's writing ; secondly, history, as like many historians of his time, Hugo wondered about the individual's powers and limits within a collective destiny, and he viewed centuries, particularly his own, partly with this in mind; politics, as the great, powerful man questioned the impersonality of the modem State, but also questioned and perhaps more importantly, the impersonality of the anonymous community. Finally, psychology, where the question aims to establish whether the great man arises from a full ego, a source of mastery, or on the contrary, does he dissolve into the infinitely great or the infinitesimal ? This paper considers the whole work, in order to draw out the complexity, the evolutions and the implications of a literary reflection on the great man, by a thinker whose death led to the reopening of the Pantheon.
27 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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01 janvier 1998
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
2 Mo