

Author: Fordham Finn
Publisher: Rodopi
ISSN: 0923-9855
Source: European Joyce Studies, Vol.19, Iss.1, 2011-03, pp. : 60-75
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Abstract
The significance of Hugo in Joyce - as in modernism generally - has been overshadowed by the dominant position within criticism of Flaubert. In a series of readings of Joyce's allusions to Hugo and his works, this chapter argues for their centrality to Joyce's Romantic figurings of the artist - as an exile, an exponent of anti-Catholic free thought, and resistance to tyrannical modes of thinking and of politics. Hugo's theory of genre is shown to be key to Stephen's theories in
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