| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 317 pages). |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Reappraisals : Canadian writers ; 37
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Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 37.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shields, Carol -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shields, Carol. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Shields, Carol, 1935-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Staines, David, 1946- editor.
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
To the light house.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Worlds of Carol Shields. [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, [2014] 9780776622064 (OCoLC)881437019 |
| ISBN |
9780776621876 (electronic book) |
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0776621874 (electronic book) |
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9780776621869 |
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0776621866 |
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9780776622064 |
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0776622064 |
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9780776621852 |
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0776621858 |
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