Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

Author: C.E. Nicholson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1990-06-18

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1349100927

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The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.


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Download or read book Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence written by C.E. Nicholson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.


Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

Author: Colin Nicholson

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781349100941

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Writing Grief

Writing Grief

Author: Christian Riegel

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0887556736

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In Writing Grief, Christian Riegel argues that the protagonists in Margaret Laurence's books achieve resolution through acts of mourning, placing this fiction within the larger tradition of writing that explores the nuances and strategies of mourning. Riegel's analysis alludes to sociological and literary antecedants of the study of mourning, including the tradition of elegy, from Derrida and Lacan to Freud, van Gennep, and Milton.


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Download or read book Writing Grief written by Christian Riegel and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing Grief, Christian Riegel argues that the protagonists in Margaret Laurence's books achieve resolution through acts of mourning, placing this fiction within the larger tradition of writing that explores the nuances and strategies of mourning. Riegel's analysis alludes to sociological and literary antecedants of the study of mourning, including the tradition of elegy, from Derrida and Lacan to Freud, van Gennep, and Milton.


Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination

Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination

Author: Paul Comeau

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2005-12-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780888644510

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Although at times painfully insecure about her creative ability and achievement, Margaret Laurence nevertheless remained fiercely loyal to her artistic vision, an archetypal vision of loss, exile and redemption that sought comprehensive expression in the epic mode that shapes the Bible, Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, and ultimately the Manawaka world of Hagar Shipley, Rachel Cameron, Stacey MacAindra, and Morag Gunn. Paul Comeau traces the development of Margaret Laurence's epic voice from its tentative beginnings in her African fiction to its culmination in the epic Manawaka Cycle, a Dantesque journey through an infernal state of self-destructive pride, out of a purgatorial paralysis of self-doubt, and on to a kind of paradisal fulfillment in self-knowledge. Laurence discovered in epic a fitting mode at once to requite her debt to the ancestors and to break free of their influence to portray the world through the sight of her own eyes. In so doing, she became the enduring epic voice of a country and a generation.


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Download or read book Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination written by Paul Comeau and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although at times painfully insecure about her creative ability and achievement, Margaret Laurence nevertheless remained fiercely loyal to her artistic vision, an archetypal vision of loss, exile and redemption that sought comprehensive expression in the epic mode that shapes the Bible, Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, and ultimately the Manawaka world of Hagar Shipley, Rachel Cameron, Stacey MacAindra, and Morag Gunn. Paul Comeau traces the development of Margaret Laurence's epic voice from its tentative beginnings in her African fiction to its culmination in the epic Manawaka Cycle, a Dantesque journey through an infernal state of self-destructive pride, out of a purgatorial paralysis of self-doubt, and on to a kind of paradisal fulfillment in self-knowledge. Laurence discovered in epic a fitting mode at once to requite her debt to the ancestors and to break free of their influence to portray the world through the sight of her own eyes. In so doing, she became the enduring epic voice of a country and a generation.


Divining Margaret Laurence

Divining Margaret Laurence

Author: Nora Foster Stovel

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0773575030

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The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.


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Download or read book Divining Margaret Laurence written by Nora Foster Stovel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.


Postcolonial Theory and Literature

Postcolonial Theory and Literature

Author: P. Mallikarjuna Rao

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9788126902309

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This Anthology Offers New Modes Of Response In The Theory And Practice Of Postcoloniality. While Taking Stock Of The Postcolonial Theoretical Constructs It Stresses The Need For Viable Critical Models To Match The Creative Spectrum Evidenced In Postcolonial Societies. It Provides A Pointer To The Various Means Of The Imperial Centre To Falsify, Mythicise And Control Postcolonial Studies As The Need To Develop Local/National Models Of Criticism Gains In Importance.The Book, In Its Wide Ranging Sweep, Covers Different Terrains Canonical Texts, Emerging Literatures And Native Indian Literatures And Subjects Some Individual Texts To Closer Critical Scrutiny. It Takes Into Its Fold Different Genres And Explores The Possibilities Of Alternative Critical Viewpoints.


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Download or read book Postcolonial Theory and Literature written by P. Mallikarjuna Rao and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Anthology Offers New Modes Of Response In The Theory And Practice Of Postcoloniality. While Taking Stock Of The Postcolonial Theoretical Constructs It Stresses The Need For Viable Critical Models To Match The Creative Spectrum Evidenced In Postcolonial Societies. It Provides A Pointer To The Various Means Of The Imperial Centre To Falsify, Mythicise And Control Postcolonial Studies As The Need To Develop Local/National Models Of Criticism Gains In Importance.The Book, In Its Wide Ranging Sweep, Covers Different Terrains Canonical Texts, Emerging Literatures And Native Indian Literatures And Subjects Some Individual Texts To Closer Critical Scrutiny. It Takes Into Its Fold Different Genres And Explores The Possibilities Of Alternative Critical Viewpoints.


Sisters Under the Skin: Margaret Laurence and Vaasanthi

Sisters Under the Skin: Margaret Laurence and Vaasanthi

Author: Dr. Sheela P. Karthick

Publisher: Shanlax Publications

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9393737193

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The book is a masterpiece and should be kept in the bookshelf of every household, and also be read by all critical minded individuals, as to fully come to terms with what the women are passing through in the present day society.


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Download or read book Sisters Under the Skin: Margaret Laurence and Vaasanthi written by Dr. Sheela P. Karthick and published by Shanlax Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a masterpiece and should be kept in the bookshelf of every household, and also be read by all critical minded individuals, as to fully come to terms with what the women are passing through in the present day society.


Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence

Author: Donez Xiques

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2005-09-24

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1550029282

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Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence’s life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence’s first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence’s early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence’s "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.


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Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by Donez Xiques and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence’s life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence’s first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence’s early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence’s "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.


Challenging Territory

Challenging Territory

Author: Christian Riegel

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 1997-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780888642899

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In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer. The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced.


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Download or read book Challenging Territory written by Christian Riegel and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer. The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced.


Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence

Author: David Staines

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2001-06-26

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0776616587

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This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.


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Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.