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Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. ‘Some truer image’

    • Shirley Chew
    Pages 35-45
  3. Images in Stones, Images in Words

    • Simone Vauthier
    Pages 46-70
  4. Double is Trouble

    • Elizabeth Waterston
    Pages 83-92
  5. Weaving Fabrications

    • Coral Ann Howells
    Pages 93-106
  6. Identity in The Fire-Dwellers

    • Nancy Bailey
    Pages 107-118
  7. Acknowledging Myths

    • John Thieme
    Pages 152-161
  8. ‘There and not there’

    • Colin Nicholson
    Pages 162-176
  9. Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners

    • Gayle Greene
    Pages 177-207
  10. Caliban’s Revolt

    • Barbara Godard
    Pages 208-227
  11. Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka

    • Greta M. K. Coger
    Pages 228-246
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 247-250

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Colin Nicholson

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