New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence

Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism

AvGreta M. Coger,Gretta M. K. McCormick Coger

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

Del i serien Contributions in Women's Studies

1 212 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals. In addition, viewing Laurence's prose as closely textured poetry, her use of language, theme, and image are carefully critiqued. The importance of Laurence's portrayal of women's experiences, most notably that of aging women, is viewed in a feminist framework. These new American perspectives on Laurence will be of interest to both scholars and students.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-05-30
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions in Women's Studies
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313290428

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

GRETA M.K. MCCORMICK is Instructor of English at Northwest Mississippi Community College. She has published numerous essays on international literatures in English, and compiled Index to Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writings of Wole Soyinka (Greenwood, 1988).

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionLanguage, Theme, and Image in LaurenceMargaret Laurence: Novelist as Poet by Walter E. SwayzeThe Angel and The Living Water: Metaphorical Networks and Structural Opposition by Michel FabreStacey Cameron Macaindra: The Fires "This Time by Lyall H. PowersA World Divided, A World Divined: Two North American Fictions by Neil BesnerNarrative Structure in LaurenceHagar Shipley's Rage for Life: Narrative Technique in The Stone Angel by Alice BellSisters, Symbols, and Structures: A Jest of God and The Fire-Dwellers by Nora Foster StovelCoherence in A Bird in the House by Bruce StovelDividing The Diviners by Ken McLeanMulticulturalism in LaurenceWar in the Manawaka Novels as Macrocosm, Fictionalized Biography, and Imaginative History by Greta M.K. McCormick CogerMargaret Laurence of Hargeisa. A Discussion of A Tree for Poverty by Fiona SparrowLaurence and the Ancestral Tradition by Cecil Abrahams"It Was Like the Book Says, but It Wasn't": Oral History in Laurence's The Diviners by Lynn PiferFeminist Perspectives in LaurenceSelf-Alienation of the Elderly in Margaret Laurence's Fiction by Rosalie Murphy BaumComing to Terms with the Image of the Mother in The Stone Angel by Cynthia TaylorThe Subversive Voice in The Fire-Dwellers by Mitzi HamovitchMorag Gunn in Fictional Context: The Career Woman Theme in The Diviners by Susan WardWordsmith and Woman: Morag Gunn's Triumph Through Language by Laurie LindergWriting a Woman Writer's Life: Celebration, Sorrow, and Pathos in Margaret Laurence's Memoir, Dance on the Earth by Alexandra PettBibliography