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Title The worlds of Carol Shields / edited by David Staines
Published [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
Series Reappraisals : Canadian writers ; 37
Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 37.
Contents Introduction / David Staines -- To the light house / Margaret Atwood -- Art is making : Carol Shields in conversation and correspondence / Eleanor Wachtel -- The square root of a clock tick : time and timing in Carol Shields's poetry and prose / Anne Giardini and Joseph Giardini -- All that "below-the-surface" stuff : Carol Shields's conversational modes / Coral Ann Howells -- Guilt, guile, and ginger in small ceremonies / Elizabeth Waterston -- Revisiting the sequel : Carol Shields's companion novels / Wendy Roy -- Sarah Binks, Pat Lowther, and the satirical gothic turn in Carol Shields's Swann : a mystery / Cynthia Sugars -- Assembling identity : late-life agency in The stone angel and The stone diaries / Patricia Life -- Male-pattern bewilderment in Larry's party / John Van Rys -- Departures, arrivals : Canada/United States migrations and the trope of travel in the fiction of Carol Shields / Alex Ramon -- "To be faithful to the idea of being good": the expansion to goodness in Carol Shields's Unless / Margaret Steffler -- Narrative pragmatism : goodness in Carol Shields's Unless / Tim Heath -- Shields's guerrilla gardeners : sowing seeds of defiance and care / Shelley Boyd -- Cool empathy in the short fiction of Carol Shields / Marilyn Rose -- The "perfect gift" and the "true gift" : empathetic dialogue in Carol Shields's "A scarf " and Joyce Carol Oates's "The scarf " / Elizabeth Reimer -- Prepositional domesticity / Aritha van Herk -- Grand slam : birthing women and bridging generations n Carol Shields's Play thirteen hands / Nora Foster Stovel -- Archives as traces of life process and engagement : the late years of the Carol Shields fonds / Catherine Hobbs -- The voices of Carol Shields / Joan Clark -- The clarity of her anger / Jane Urquhart -- My seen-sang, Carol Shields : a memoir of a master teacher / Wayson Choy -- Carol Shields / Martin Levin
Summary The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields' extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Shields, Carol -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Shields, Carol, 1935-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation
Shields, Carol fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Staines, David, 1946- editor
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- To the light house
ISBN 9780776621876
0776621874
9780776621869
0776621866