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Journal Article
The Aesthetics of Utopian Imaginings in Louise Penny's A Trick of the Light
2022
Overview
[...]one of our strengths, as humans, is our diversity-of talents, abilities, and even desires; therefore, one person's utopia is likely to be another person's dystopia. [...]human cognition and perception function largely through contrasts, which means that it would be difficult to recognize let alone appreciate happiness or pleasure without sadness or pain. By casting a wide net on aesthetics-representing traditional paintings and classical poetry alongside new media products like YouTube videos-Penny repeatedly explores the potential of art not only to perform a critique of contemporary society but also to imagine a better future, thus demonstrating that twenty-first-century detective fiction can capably house one of the most vibrant utopian projects of our time. [...]utopianism has a transformative function\" (12).
Publisher
The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature,The University of British Columbia/Canadian Literature
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