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Nightmares of Absence: Hugo and "Le Rouet d'Omphale"

Nightmares of Absence: Hugo and "Le Rouet d'Omphale" <p>This article offers a new reading of an understudied poem from Les Contemplations (1856), &apos;Le Rouet d&apos;Omphale.&apos; By analysing the poem&apos;s rich web of intra- and intertextual allusions, from Ovid and Catullus to Hugo&apos;s &apos;La Pente de la rêverie&apos; (1831), William Shakespeare (1864) and Le Rhin (1845), it becomes clear that Hugo&apos;s fascination with the legend of Hercules and Omphale, a legend in which Hercules is humiliated and emasculated, is linked to his own terrors of non-existence that are intimately bound up with his insecurities about the act of creation. </p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nineteenth-Century French Studies University of Nebraska Press

Nightmares of Absence: Hugo and "Le Rouet d&apos;Omphale"

Cox, Fiona.
Nineteenth-Century French Studies , Volume 35 (3) – Jun 5, 2007
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<p>This article offers a new reading of an understudied poem from Les Contemplations (1856), &apos;Le Rouet d&apos;Omphale.&apos; By analysing the poem&apos;s rich web of intra- and intertextual allusions, from Ovid and Catullus to Hugo&apos;s &apos;La Pente de la rêverie&apos; (1831), William Shakespeare (1864) and Le Rhin (1845), it becomes clear that Hugo&apos;s fascination with the legend of Hercules and Omphale, a legend in which Hercules is humiliated and emasculated, is linked to his own terrors of non-existence that are intimately bound up with his insecurities about the act of creation. </p>

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Nineteenth-Century French Studies – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Jun 5, 2007

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