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Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic

Brenda Beckman-Long

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Description: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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic. To get started finding Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic. To get started finding Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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