The Worlds of Carol Shields edited by David Staines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staines, David, editor.

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers.

Re-appraisals : Canadian writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shields, Carol--Criticism and interpretation.

Shields, Carol.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

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 at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780776621876

0776621874

9780776621869

0776621866

OCLC:

913977407