By Brenda Beckman-Long
ISBN-10: 1442613955
ISBN-13: 9781442613959
ISBN-10: 1442645709
ISBN-13: 9781442645707
Throughout her literary and significant occupation, Canadian author Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted uncomplicated categorization. Her novels are dependent puzzles that confront the reader with the anomaly of that means and narrative, but their place inside of Shields’ severe feminist venture has, previously, been obscured.
In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that venture throughout the examine of Shields’ wide oeuvre, together with her fiction and feedback. Beckman-Long brings intensity to her research via shut readings of six novels, together with the award-winning The Stone Diaries. Elliptical, open-ended, and anxious with ladies writing approximately girls, those novels demonstrate Shields’ critique of dominant masculine discourses and her deep engagement with the lengthy culture of women’s lifestyles writing. Beckman-Long’s unique archival examine attests to Shields’ preoccupation with the altering efforts of waves of feminist activism and writing.
A a lot wanted reappraisal of Shields’s leading edge paintings, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on lifestyles writing and autobiography, literary feedback, and feminist and demanding theory.
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