Carol Shields : Evocation and Echo (Canada Cahiers)

Steenman-marcusse, Conny (EDT)/ Van Herk, Aritha (EDT)

Barkuis Pub（2009/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 146 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789077922514
• DDC分類 810820

Full Description

Beloved of readers and writers alike, Carol Shields was a formidable creative force. e author of dozens of books, she won a Pulitzer Prize and an Orange Prize, a Governor General's award, and many other honours and recognitions. And this extraordinary writer's work continues to inspire lovers of language from around the world.Carol Shields: Evocation and Echo gathers together a bouquet of literary responses. Critics, friends, and fellow writers from North America and Europe here respond to the writing of Carol Shields. Their observations, augmentations, and creative interventions make for a collection that pays homage to Shields, but nonetheless possesses its own distinctive flavour. Her magnificent words continue to reverberate, evoking laughter and memory, and echoing her perceptive eloquence.

Contents

Acknowledgements ix Aritha van Herk IntroductionSteenman-Marcusse Introduction: Pleasure 7 Margaret Atwood Carol Shields, who Died Last Week, Wrote Books that were full of Delights 11 Sara Cassidy Calling My Mother 17 Carol Shields Boy Waking Up 20 Sara Cassidy After the Tsunami, December, 2004 21 Carol Shields Two Old Friends Who Arrived at Dawn 22 Sara Cassidy My Mother Arriving at Dawn 23 Joan Clark The Man Who Loved Mary Swann 25 Marjorie Anderson Miranda's Readings 33 Gunilla Florby Malvern Pudding: Thoughts on Rereading The Stone Diaries 41 Alex Ramon Gertrude, The Fourth 47 Elizabeth Hay Readers are an Unruly Lot 51 Isabel Huggan Remembering Carol 53 Conny Steenman-Marcusse Below and Behold 59 Gudrun Bjork Gudsteinsdottir Notes Recovered from a Rhyming Dictionary 69 Susan Swan Mary Swann: The Mystery Solved 73 Blanche Howard Of Friendship and Carol Shields 77 Janice Kulyk Keefer That Malvern Pudding 81 Anne Giardini A Wood, 2009 87 Charlotte Sturgess Moving On 91 Peter Oliva Carol Shields, Dogs and Mischief 101 Christl Verduyn Fool's Gold 107 Aritha van Herk Debris 113 Marsha Hanen Feminist Musings and Unless 123 Martin Levin Carol's Kindness 131 Jane Urquhart A Generous Spirit 135 Carol Shields The Writing Life 139 By Carol Shields 145