Malcolm Lowry’s Humble Hypotyposes in Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
This article is concerned with Malcolm Lowry’s posthumous collection of short stories, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) and with the place occupied within it by a figure of speech traditionally associated with tragedy and the epic, hypotyposis. Hypotyposis, which is commonly defi...
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| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2023
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | This article is concerned with Malcolm Lowry’s posthumous collection of short stories, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) and with the place occupied within it by a figure of speech traditionally associated with tragedy and the epic, hypotyposis. Hypotyposis, which is commonly defined as “the description of a scene or event with such vividness that it seems to be presented directly to the eyes of the reader or hearer” (John Carlos Rowe), is employed by Lowry in his stories in a surprising and original manner. Although he does not altogether discard the grandiloquence of hypotyposis, Lowry chooses to progressively “deterritorialise” the figure of speech away from its tragic background, so as to reconcile it with mundane scenes of the everyday, such as the fleeting evocations of the natural world found in the last story of the collection, “The Forest Path to the Spring.” |
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