Lorrie Moore: Mo(o)re than an interim assessment

Brauner, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2817-7847 and MacPherson, H. S. (2012) Lorrie Moore: Mo(o)re than an interim assessment. Journal of American Studies, 46 (3). pp. 541-550. ISSN 1469-5154 doi: 10.1017/S0021875811001927

Abstract/Summary

Lorrie Moore has long shed the image of the precocious talent who won the Seventeen story prize with her first submission as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, but there is still a sense that her best work may be yet to come. In that respect, this mini special issue represents by no means the final word on Moore, but rather an interim assessment of a career that is already substantial and that promises much more to come. Together these three essays (and introduction) offer a coherent and striking exploration of Moore's work that develops new directions for future criticism and will help cement her growing reputation as one of the most original and distinctive contemporary writers. They sometimes circle around the same stories, even the same quotations, reading them in a variety of frames and picking up (and at) the nuances of Moore's sustained wordplay and careful documenting of space, of identity, of gender. Thus these essays work together rather than separately, layering over multiple understandings of Moore's incisive American literature.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/28977
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/S0021875811001927
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Identities
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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