Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

286 Pages·2007·1.839 MB·English

by  Marta Dvořák, Manina Jones

carol shields and the extra-ordinary
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Carol Shields and the
Extra-Ordinary
Edited by
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marta dvorák and manina jones
McGill-Queen’sUniversityPress
Montreal&Kingston(cid:2)London(cid:2)Ithaca
© McGill–Queen’sUniversityPress2007
isbn978-0-7735-3220-5
Legaldepositfirstquarter2007
BibliothèquenationaleduQuébec
PrintedinCanadaonacid-freepaper
Thisbookhasbeenpublishedwiththehelpofagrantfromthe
CanadianFederationfortheHumanitiesandSocialSciences,through
theAidtoScholarlyPublicationsProgramme,usingfundsprovidedby
theSocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada.
McGill-Queen’sUniversityPressacknowledgesthesupportofthe
CanadaCouncilfortheArtsforourpublishingprogram.Wealso
acknowledgethefinancialsupportoftheGovernmentofCanada
throughtheBookPublishingIndustryDevelopmentProgram(bpidp)
forourpublishingactivities.
LibraryandArchivesCanadaCataloguinginPublication
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CarolShieldsandtheextra-ordinary/editedbyMartaDvorákand
ManinaJones.
Includesbibliographicalreferences.
isbn978-0-7735-3220-5
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1.Shields,Carol,1935-2003–Criticismandinterpretation. I.Dvorák,
Marta II.Jones,Manina
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IllustrationsinChapters2and6arepublishedbypermissionofDonald
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
OutoftheOr(cid:2)dinary:Introduction 3
marta dvorák and manina jones
1 AViewfromtheEdgeoftheEdge 17
carol shields
part one essaying/assaying genre: biography, archive,
short story, novel
2 VoiceandRe-vision:TheCarolShieldsArchivalFonds 33
catherine hobbs
3 (Es)SayingItHerWay:CarolShieldsasEssayist 59
christl verduyn
4 “Dolls,Dolls,Dolls,Dolls”:Intothe(Extra)ordinaryWorldofGirlsand
Women 80
christine lorre
5 CarolShields’sTheRepublicofLove,orHowtoRavishaGenre 97
taïna tuhkunen
vi Contents
6 Larry’sA/MazingSpaces 115
coral ann howells
part two margins of otherness: reflection,
subjectivity, embodiment
7 AKnowableCountry:EmbodiedOmniscienceinCarolShields’sThe
RepublicofLoveandLarry’sParty 139
lorna irvine
8 PioneeringInterlacedSpaces:ShiftingPerspectivesandSelf-Representationin
Larry’sParty 157
patricia-léa paillot
9 Scenesfroma(Boston)Marriage:TheProsaicsofCollaborationand
CorrespondenceinACelibateSeason 172
manina jones
10 “ArtefactOutofAbsence”:ReflectionandConvergenceintheFictionof
CarolShields 191
ellen levy
11 ErosintheEyeoftheMirror:TheRewritingofMythsinCarolShields’s
“Mirrors” 205
héliane ventura
part three extra-ordinary performances: production
and reception
12 Disappearance(cid:2)and“theVisionMultiplied”:WritingasPerformance 223
marta dvorák
13 LargeCeremonies:TheLiteraryCelebrityofCarolShields 238
lorraine york
14 Mischiefs,Misfits,andMiracles 256
aritha van herk
Index 271
Acknowledgments
Theeditorsofthisvolumewouldliketothanktheauthorsandthefollow-
inginstitutionsandindividualsfortheircontributionstotheongoingdia-
logue that produced this volume: the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Federation for the Humani-
ties and Social Sciences Aid to Scholarly Publications programme, the
University of Western Ontario, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Centre
d’Études Canadiennes de Paris iii–Sorbonne Nouvelle, the anonymous
readers for McGill-Queen’s University Press, Nathalie Cooke, Jonathan
Crago, Cécile Fouache, Faye Hammill, Michelle Hartley, Coral Ann
Howells, Elizabeth Hulse, Michèle Kaltemback, Afra Kavanagh, Jean-
Michel Lacroix, Joan McGilvray, Marcienne Rocard, Marilyn Rose, Lee
Thompson,ArithavanHerk,KristenWarder,andJohnZucchi.Weare
especiallyindebtedtoCarolandDonaldShields.
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Contributors
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marta dvorák isprofessorofCanadianandCommonwealthLitera-
turesattheSorbonneNouvelle.
catherine hobbs isliterarymanuscriptlibrarian,CanadianLitera-
tureResearchService,LibraryandArchivesCanada.
coral ann howells is professor of English and Canadian litera-
tureattheUniversityofReading.
lorna irvine isprofessorofEnglishandwomen’sstudiesatGeorge
MasonUniversity.
manina jones is associate professor of English at the University of
WesternOntario.
ellen levy ismaîtredeconférencesattheUniversitédeToulouse–Le
Mirail.
christine lorre ismaîtredeconférencesattheSorbonneNouvelle.
patricia paillot ismaîtredeconférencesatiufmd’Aquitaine.