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Divining Margaret Laurence : a study of her complete writings / Nora Foster Stovel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stovel, Nora Foster, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laurence, Margaret--Criticism and interpretation.
- Laurence, Margaret.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (429 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal [Quebec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children's and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Margaret Laurence’s Life and Works
- Abbreviations
- Beginnings
- Introduction: “The Promised Land of One’s Own Inner Freedom”
- “Embryo Words”: Laurence’s Early Writings
- Heart of a Stranger: Laurence’s Life-Journey
- The African Texts
- “A Labour of Love”: A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose
- “The Sleeping Giant”: Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952–1966
- “The Face of Africa”: The Prophet’s Camel Bell, This Side Jordan, and The Tomorrow-Tamer
- The Canadian Texts
- “A Town of the Mind”: Laurence’s Mythical Microcosm of Manawaka
- “A Holy Terror”: Hagar, Hero(ine) of The Stone Angel
- “Sisters under Their Skins”: A Jest of God and The Fire-Dwellers
- “Death and Love”: Romance and Reality in A Bird in the House
- “(W)Rites of Passage”: A Portrait of the Writer in The Diviners
- “Dance on the Earth”: Laurence’s Unfinished Novel
- Endings
- Snow Angels and Monarch Butterflies: Laurence’s Children’s Fiction
- Lady of the Dance: Choreographing a Life in Dance on the Earth: A Memoir
- “The Mystery at the Core of Life”: Closure in the Texts, Career, and Life of Margaret Laurence
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612865589
- 9780773577480
- 0773577483
- 9781282865587
- 1282865587
- 9780773575035
- 0773575030
- OCLC:
- 844345626
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