The worlds of Carol Shields / edited by David Staines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staines, David, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shields, Carol--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Shields, Carol.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 317 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, [2014]

Summary:

The Worlds of Carol Shields strikes the right balance between intimate accounts and literary analysis. It opens with recollections by close friend Eleanor Wachtel, which are followed by a study of Shields's poetry by her daughter and grandson, then by various aspects of her fiction, including a detailed examination of her plays. Reminiscences by four close friends - Jane Urqubart, Joan Clark, Wayson Choy and Martin Levin -complete the collection. The 25 contributors offer new insights, new theories, and new perspectives on Shields's illuminating career. Only one piece - the obituary written by Margaret Atwood- has been previously published. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- To the light house.

Other Format:

Worlds of Carol Shields.

ISBN:

9780776622064

0776622064

OCLC:

881437019