Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic
Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields’ critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured.
In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that project thro...
Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields’ critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured.
In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that project thro...
