Formal Coherence in the Art of Hugh Hood

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Author/collaborator
Title
Formal Coherence in the Art of Hugh Hood
Abstract
The author maintains that to understand Montreal novelist, essayist and story teller Hugh Hood's (1928-2000) work it is necessary to understand his Catholicism, not only as it pertains to his views of morality, but also as it affects his system of aesthetics, as this results in an art which offers a complete, coherent and systematic way of looking at the universe. The author claims that this aesthetic system is made clear in Hood's essays "The Ontology of Super-Realism," and "The Absolute Infant." In these, Hood explores the idea that the perceptive agent of immaterial reality is the imagination, a position further developed in his short story "The Village Inside." Through its utilization of contemporary landscape as relic,the author argues, this story opens the past to the present and demonstrates Hood's understanding of the coherence of the universe through exposing the coherence of time.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne
Volume
Vol. 2
Issue
no. 2
Pages
203-212
Date
Summer 1977
Language
en
URL
Citation
Thompson, Kent. “Formal Coherence in the Art of Hugh Hood.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne Vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 203–212. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/7866/8923.
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