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Author Ramon, Alex

Title Liminal Spaces : the Double Art of Carol Shields
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields's fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as "liminal spaces" situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields's stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the signifi ..
Analysis Shields, Carol Criticism and interpretation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index
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Subject Shields, Carol -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Shields, Carol fast
Shields, Carol. swd
Subject Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Women and literature
Canada
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009379520
ISBN 9781443815109
1443815101