Research Catalog

Title

Carol Shields and the extra-ordinary / edited by Marta Dvořák and Manina Jones.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Dvorak, Marta.
• Jones, Manina.

Description

x, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Subjects

• Shields, Carol > Criticism and interpretation
• Shields, Carol, 1935-2003 > Critique et interprétation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Out of the ordinary : introduction / Marta Dvorak and Manina Jones -- 1. A view from the edge of the edge / Carol Shields -- 2. Voice and re-vision : the Carol Shields archival fonds / Catherine Hobbs -- 3. (Es)saying it her way : Carol Shields as essayist / Christl Verduyn -- 4. "Dolls, dolls, dolls, dolls" : into the (extra) ordinary world of girls and women / Christine Lorre -- 5. Carol Shields's The republic of love, or how to ravish a genre / Taina Tuhkunen -- 6. Larry's a/mazing spaces / Coral Ann Howells -- 7. A knowable country : embodied omniscience in Carol Shields's The republic of love and Larry's party / Lorna Irvine -- 8. Pioneering interlaced spaces : shifting perspectives and self-representation in Larry's party / Patricia-Lea Paillot -- 9. Scenes from a (Boston) marriage : the prosaics of collaboration and correspondence in A celibate season / Manina Jones -- 10. "Artefact out of absence" : reflection and convergence in the fiction of Carol Shields / Ellen Levy -- 11. Eros in the eye of the mirror : the rewriting of myths in Carol Shields's "Mirrors" / Heliane Ventura -- 12. Disappearance and "the vision multiplied" : writing as performance / Marta Dvorak -- 13. Large ceremonies : the literary celebrity of Carol Shields / Lorraine York -- 14. Mischiefs, misfits, and miracles / Aritha Van Herk.

ISBN

• 9780773532205
• 077353220X

OCLC

• ocm71243451
• 71243451
• SCSB-5341278

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries