Landscapes of Encounter

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Dahlie and O'Donoghue.Critical of Flood's reduction of Moore's fiction "to a disguised psychobiography," Sullivan reserves most praise for O'Donoghue: Despite the healthy growth in recognition that Moore has always deserved, very few commentators have engaged with the nuances of Moore's stylistic and narratological choices: the craft of his fiction.It is much to O'Donoghue's credit that she deals with this aspect of Moore's fiction in the most intelligent and.comprehensive way to date, (xiv)Sullivan credits O'Donoghue too with seeing "Moore's ambiguous relationship to faith and belief" as a "kind of structuring premise."Noting that Moore's "hostility to religion and Catholicism in particular has gradually disappeared," that "he now sees spiritual faith, not just as another kind of belief but as the highest kind there is," Sullivan comments:Moore has, of course, never been hostile to belief; indeed his whole oeuvre is a testament to his fascination with the mystery of belief, the enigma

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