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| Named Person: | Margaret Laurence; Margaret Laurence; Margaret Laurence |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Greta M Coger |
| ISBN: | 0313290423 9780313290428 |
| OCLC Number: | 32922577 |
| Description: | xxviii, 232 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Language, theme, and image in Laurence: Margaret Laurence: novelist-as-poet / Walter E. Swayze -- The angel and the living water: metaphorical networks and structural opposition in The stone angel / Michel Fabre -- Stacey Cameron MacAindra: the fire This time / Lyall H. Powers -- A world divided, a world divined: two North American fictions / Neil Besner -- pt. 2. Narrative structure in Laurence: Hagar Shipley's rage for life: narrative technique in The stone angel / Alice Bell -- "Sisters under their skins": A jest of God and The fire-dwellers / Nora Foster Stovel -- Coherence in A bird in the house / Bruce Stovel -- Dividing The diviners / Ken McLean -- pt. 3. Multiculturalism in Laurence: War in the Manawaka novels as macrocosm, fictionalized biography, and imaginative history / Greta M.K. McCormick Coger -- Margaret Laurence of Hargeisa: a discussion of A tree for poverty / Fiona Sparrow -- Margaret Laurence and the ancestral tradition / Cecil Abrahams -- "It was like the book says, but it wasn't": oral folk history in Laurence's The diviners / Lynn Pifer -- pt. 4. Feminist perspectives in Laurence: Self-alienation of the elderly in Margaret Laurence's fiction / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- Coming to terms with the image of the mother in The stone angel / Cynthia Taylor -- The subversive voice in The fire-dwellers / Mitzi Hamovitch -- Morag Gunn in fictional context: the career woman theme in The diviners / Susan Ward -- Wordsmith and woman: Morag Gunn's triumph through language / Laurie Lindberg -- Writing a woman's life: celebration, sorrow, and pathos in Margaret Laurence's memoir Dance on the earth / Alexandra Pett. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in women's studies, no. 154 |
| Other Titles: | Margaret Laurence |
| Responsibility: | edited by Greta M. K. McCormick Coger. |
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