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Title Carol Shields, narrative hunger, and the possibilities of fiction / edited by Edward Eden and Dee Goertz
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 323 pages)
Contents Introduction / Edward Eden -- Section One: Narrative hunger and the overflowing cupboard. Narrative hunger and the overflowing cupboard / Carol Shields -- Section Two: The 'precious oxygen of permission': Shield's experiments with narrative form. Filling the creative void: narrative dilemmas in Small ceremonies, the Happenstance novels, and Swann / Sarah Gamble -- Republic of love and popular romance / Faye Hammill -- Stone diaries, Jane Eyre, and the burden of romance / Dianne Osland -- Autobiography as critical practice in The stone diaries / Wendy Roy -- 'Subjunctive mode of one's self': Carol Shield's biography of Jane Austen / Melissa Pope Eden -- Section Three: To 'shorten the distance between what is privately felt and universally known': reaching beyond the word. Fat, nail clippings, body parts, or the story of where I have been: Carol Sheilds and auto/biography / Chiara Briganti -- 'She enlarges on the available materials': a postmodernism of resistance in The stone diaries / Lisa Johnson -- Treading the maze of Larry's party / Dee Goertz -- Swann who laid the golden egg: a cautionary tale of deconstructionist cannibalism in Swann / Kathy Barbour -- Section Four: Annotated bibliography. Carol Shields: an annotated bibliography / Faye Hammill
Summary "Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shield's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
"Carol Shields: an annotated bibliography": pages 285-323
Notes English
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Subject Shields, Carol -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Shields, Carol fast
Shields, Carol. swd
Subject Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Roman
Genre/Form Electronic books
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Goertz, Dee, editor.
Eden, Edward, 1964- editor.
ISBN 9781442672758
1442672757
9786612022821
6612022825