George Moore

Reviews / Votes

"The dust jacket ... announces that the volumes eighteen essays ... offer 'fresh insights into diverse elements' of Moore's oeuvre and reflect the wide variety of his 'literary innovations, influences and legacy.' Readers will not be disappointed: here is MOore in all shapes and guises - from autobiographer to Voltairian - through the lenses of Irish, English, American, French, Spanish, Brazilian, and Greek scholars."From a review in English Literature in Transition"This volume is a most welcome and timely reassessment of George Moore's significance in Irish and world literature, of his sense of innovation, his modernism, his significance to James Joyce, his artistic role. The variety of the theoretical approaches, of the national backgrounds of the authors, their emphasis on Moore's significance in their own countries all contribute to the interest of this book.This is an excellent analysis of the significance of what Deleuze and Gattari call 'minority literature', i. e. 'the literature of a minority written in the language of the majority, a literature in which compulsive expression of revolutionary sentiment cannot be avoided by its author'.Moore is rendered visible in his working and reworking of the written text and the process through which textual grammar reveals psychic grammar is made explicit."Professor J. Brihault"Mary Pierse argues for a lasting sympathy between Moore and his reforming landowner father in her essay on politics. If this erases the late-century textures of the younger Moore's advanced beliefs, it also refigures teh cultural geography of post-Famine Ireland, Pierse preparing the reader for Moore's reading of Dalkey as a modern-day Babylon, the decaying villas of the mortgaged aristocracy hanging like faded gardens from the Dublin coast. Perceptively, Pierse sets Thomas hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles against Moore's Esther Waters... Manet's early portrait, 'George Moore au Cafe', outlines a writer and thinker in development, the wide cuffs and loose collar opening on to a career to which Moore looks across the table, attentively disputatious. George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds is an engaging portrait of this figure in literary perspective"-Nicholas Allen, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in The Irish Times Weekend Review, Saturday, June 30, 2007