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Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic
Brenda Beckman-Long
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Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935-2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields' critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured. In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that project through the study of Shields' extensive oeuvre, including her fiction and criticism. Beckman-Long brings depth to her analysis through close readings of six novels, including the award-winning The Stone Diaries. Elliptical, open-ended, and concerned with women writing about women, these novels reveal Shields' critique of dominant masculine discourses and her deep engagement with the long tradition of women's life writing. Beckman-Long's original archival research attests to Shields' preoccupation with the changing efforts of waves of feminist activism and writing. A much needed reappraisal of Shields's innovative work, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory.
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
Page 10-11
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Introduction: Shields as Writer-Critic: Autobiography and the Politics of Self-Representation
Page 16-33
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1 The Problem of the Genre: The Autobiographical Pact in Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden
Page 34-54
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2 The Problem of the Author: Absence and the Epitaph of Victim in Swann
Page 55-77
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3 The Problem of the Body: Romance as Metaphysical Ruin in The Republic of Love
Page 78-98
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4 The Problem of the Subject: The Stone Diaries as an Apocryphal Journal
Page 99-121
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5 The Problem of the Subject of Feminism: Unless as Meta-Autobiography
Page 122-139
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Conclusion
Page 140-149
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Notes
Page 150-157
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Bibliography
Page 158-169
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Index
Page 170-174
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Title
Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic
Contributors
Brenda Beckman-Long
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2016-02-02
Pages
xii, 161 pages
Print ISBN
9781442645707
eBook ISBN
9781442663442
LC Subjects
Women and literature.
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Feminist literary criticism.
Audience
College/higher education
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