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Informationen zum Autor Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, David Staines specializes in medieval literature and culture and Canadian literature and culture. In the former, he has published Tennyson's Camelot: The Idylls of the King and Its Medieval Sources , and translated The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes ; in the latter, he published The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, The Forty-Ninth and Other Parallels: Contemporary Canadian Perspectives, and The Letters of Stephen Leacock . He has also edited volumes on Morley Callaghan, Stephen Leacock and Margaret Laurence, and co-edited volumes of the writings of Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan. A long-time friend of Carol Shields, he wrote Carol Shields: Cultural Context , a part of Library and Archives Canada's Web exhibition Canadian Writers. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction David Staines To The Lighthouse Margaret Atwood Art is Making: Carol Shields in Conversation and Correspondence Eleanor Wachtel The Square Root of a Ticking Clock: 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 ElizabethWaterston 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/U.S. Migration and the Trope of Travel in the Fiction of Carol Shields Alex Ramon "To Be Faithfull 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 in a Middle-Class World 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" ElizabethReimer Prepositional Domesticity Aritha van Herk Grand Slam: Birthing Women and Bridging Generations in 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 CatherineHobbs 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 ...
