Margaret Laurence : Critical Reflections / / edited and with an introduction by David Staines.

• Superior document: Reappraisals, Canadian writers
• Author: Staines, David
• TeilnehmendeR: Staines, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press,, 2001.; ©2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Reappraisals, Canadian writers
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (179 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Introduction -- The Spirit and the Letter -- The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence -- Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls -- Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel -- Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic -- Margaret Laurence and the City -- The Figure of the Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers -- (W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text -- Listening: Laurence's Women -- Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning -- Margaret Laurence: The Shape of the Writer's Shadow -- To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children -- Faith and the Vocation of the Author -- Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence -- Contributors.