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Relating Carol Shields's Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders

Relating Carol Shields's Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders

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The collection of essays explores Carol Shields' experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her fiction, revealing her iconoclastic approach to narrative rules and her revisionist policies. It also highlights the development of her fiction as it becomes more explicitly feminist and daringly postmodernist. The essays invite readers to read Shieldss fiction with new eyes by revealing how her essays reflect and refract the brilliance of her work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 269 pages
Publication date: 02 January 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG


This collection of essays delves into the captivating experimentation of celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields with the essay genre in connection to her fiction. Shields' essays serve as a window into her unconventional approach to narrative rules, shedding light on her revisionist policies and illuminating the evolution of her writing, encompassing both novels and short stories. As her writing gradually embraces a more explicitly feminist and daringly postmodernist tone, these essays provide a profound understanding of the development of her fiction.

The dozen essays included in this edition, penned by esteemed Canadian scholars, offer a fresh perspective on Shields' writing, inviting readers to approach it with renewed eyes. By examining how her essays reflect and refract the brilliance of her fiction, these essays invite us to engage with Shields' work in a new and insightful manner.

Furthermore, this collection includes essays that explore Shieldss fiction through the lens of her essays, including those featured in the recent Giardini edition. In these essays, Shields delves into the creative methodologies employed in her fiction and provides valuable advice to aspiring writers of fiction.

Through her essays, Shields invites us to explore the intricate connections between her fiction and her essays, unveiling the rich tapestry of her artistic vision. This collection is a testament to Shields' enduring influence on the literary world and a must-read for anyone interested in her remarkable body of work.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 155 x 220 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031114793
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023

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