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Brenda Beckman-Long - Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic - 9781442613959 - V9781442613959
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Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic

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Description for Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic Paperback. Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442613959
SKU
V9781442613959
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Brenda Beckman-Long
Brenda Beckman-Long is an assistant professor of English at Briercrest College and Seminary, which is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan.

Reviews for Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic
"Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic is an intelligent contribution to Shields scholarship, and a rewarding read for students and scholars alike."
Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham
Contemporary Women's Writing, 12:3, Nov 2018
"…a valuable contemporary reappraisal, convincingly arguing that for Shields writing is a social and political act…"
Carol Ann Howells, University of London/University of Reading ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic


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