An Aesthetics of Intensity: Lisa Moore's Sublime Worlds.
The writer examines, at length, how the fiction of Newfoundland author Lisa Moore enacts what might be described as an “aesthetics of intensity.” She begins by showing the way in which Moore's prose style is similar to the hyper-real in its depictions of the quotidian, before linking this hyper-rea...
| Publicado en: | Newfoundland & Labrador Studies Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Newfoundland & Labrador Studies
Spring 2008
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| Sumario: | The writer examines, at length, how the fiction of Newfoundland author Lisa Moore enacts what might be described as an “aesthetics of intensity.” She begins by showing the way in which Moore's prose style is similar to the hyper-real in its depictions of the quotidian, before linking this hyper-real presentation with the gothic and romantic sublime. Treating Moore's prose through the perspective of what Barbara Freeman calls “the feminine sublime,” she contends throughout that Moore's moments of upheaval and intensity give the reader an ethical understanding of what is good and right about the world—in other words, human connection. She suggests that moments of intensity and vulnerability are largely redemptive. |
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