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Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Colin Nicholson

    1. Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. ‘Planted firmly in some soil’

    • Clara Thomas
    Pages 1-15

  3. ‘Leave the Dead some room to dance!’

    • David Richards
    Pages 16-34

  4. ‘Some truer image’

    • Shirley Chew
    Pages 35-45

  5. Images in Stones, Images in Words

    • Simone Vauthier
    Pages 46-70

  6. ‘All that happens, one must try to understand’

    • Michael A. Peterman
    Pages 71-82

  7. Double is Trouble

    • Elizabeth Waterston
    Pages 83-92

  8. Weaving Fabrications

    • Coral Ann Howells
    Pages 93-106

  9. Identity in The Fire-Dwellers

    • Nancy Bailey
    Pages 107-118

  10. The Realism of Laurence’s Semi-Autobiographical Fiction

    • Peter Easingwood
    Pages 119-132

  11. Consolation and Articulation in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners

    • Lynette Hunter
    Pages 133-151

  12. Acknowledging Myths

    • John Thieme
    Pages 152-161

  13. ‘There and not there’

    • Colin Nicholson
    Pages 162-176

  14. Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners

    • Gayle Greene
    Pages 177-207

  15. Caliban’s Revolt

    • Barbara Godard
    Pages 208-227

  16. Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka

    • Greta M. K. Coger
    Pages 228-246

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 247-250
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About this book

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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  • Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Colin Nicholson

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