New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence

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).

• 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