Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction / / Dee Goertz, Edward Eden.

Award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields has garnered praise from scholars and an international audience of readers. Inspired by the quality and scope of Shields's work, Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction addresses her creative exploration of postmodernism. As...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Eden, Edward
  • Section One: Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard
  • Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard / Shields, Carol
  • Section Two: The 'Precious Oxygen of Permission': Shields's Experiments with Narrative Form
  • Filling the Creative Void: Narrative Dilemmas in Small Ceremonies, the Happenstance Novels, and Swann / Gamble, Sarah
  • The Republic of Love and Popular Romance / Hammill, Faye
  • The Stone Diaries, Jane Eyre, and the Burden of Romance / Osland, Dianne
  • Autobiography As Critical Practice in The Stone Diaries / Roy, Wendy
  • The Subjunctive Mode of One's Self': Carol Shields's Biography of Jane Austen / Eden, Melissa Pope
  • Section Three: To 'Shorten the Distance between What Is Privately Felt and Universally Known': Reaching beyond the Word
  • Fat, Nail Clippings, Body Parts, or the Story of Where I Have Been: Carol Shields and Auto/Biography / Briganti, Chiara
  • 'She Enlarges on the Available Materials': A Postmodernism of Resistance in The Stone Diaries / Johnson, Lisa
  • Treading the Maze of Larry's Party / Goertz, Dee
  • The Swann Who Laid the Golden Egg: A Cautionary Tale of Deconstructionist Cannibalism in Swann / Barbour, Kathy
  • Section Four: Annotated Bibliography
  • Carol Shields: An Annotated Bibliography / Hammill, Faye
  • Contributors
  • Index