Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction

Eden, Edward (EDT)/ Goertz, Dee (EDT)

University of Toronto Press（2003/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780802084897
• DDC分類 813.54

Full Description

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 the first thorough examination of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of essays establishes the groundwork for future studies of her oeuvre. The collection begins with a significant new essay from Shields herself, 'Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard,' perhaps her most substantial commentary upon her own aims as a writer. In addition, scholars from Canada, England, the United States, and Australia explore the complexity of Shields's work and her contributions to the genre of the novel. These lively essays reflect Shields's verve and her playful approach to today's sophisticated critical thinking. Among the topics are Shields's use of biography and autobiography, metafiction, popular romance, and symbolism.
While the essays foreground the unreliability of language, and hence our inability to know one another or even ourselves, the contributors argue that Shields has taken a step beyond postmodernism by suggesting that we can transcend the limitations of its epistemology. Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                                    ix
Introduction                                       3  (16)
  EDWARD EDEN
Section One: Narrative Hunger and the
Overflowing Cupboard
  Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard    19 (20)
    CAROL SHIELDS
Section Two: The 'Precious Oxygen of
Permission': Shields's Experiments with
Narrative Form
  Filling the Creative Void: Narrative Dilemmas    39 (22)
  in Small Ceremonies, the Happenstance Novels,
  and Swann
    SARAH GAMBLE
  The Republic of Love and Popular Romance         61 (23)
    FAME HAMMILL
  The Stone Diaries, Jane Eyre, and the Burden     84 (29)
  of Romance
    DIANNE OSLAND
  Autobiography As Critical Practice in The        113(34)
  Stone Diaries
    WENDY ROY
  'The Subjunctive Mode of One's Self': Carol      147(28)
  Shields's Biography of Jane Austen
    MELISSA POPE EDEN
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    175(26)
  of Where I Have Been: Carol Shields and
  Auto/Biography
    CHIARA BRIGANTI
  'She Enlarges on the Available Materials': A     201(29)
  Postmodernism of Resistance in The Stone
  Diaries
    LISA JOHNSON
  Treading the Maze of Larry's Party               230(25)
    DEE GOERTZ
  The Swann Who Laid the Golden Egg: A             255(30)
  Cautionary Tale of Deconstructionist
  Cannibalism in Swann
    KATHY BARBOUR
Section Four: Annotated Bibliography
  Carol Shields: An Annotated Bibliography         285(26)
    FAME HAMMILL
Contributors                                       311(4)
Index                                              315