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New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence Greta M. Coger

New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence By Greta M. Coger

New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence by Greta M. Coger


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Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals.

New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence Summary

New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism by Greta M. Coger

Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals. In addition, viewing Laurence's prose as closely textured poetry, her use of language, theme, and image are carefully critiqued. The importance of Laurence's portrayal of women's experiences, most notably that of aging women, is viewed in a feminist framework. These new American perspectives on Laurence will be of interest to both scholars and students.

About Greta M. Coger

GRETA M.K. MCCORMICK is Instructor of English at Northwest Mississippi Community College. She has published numerous essays on international literatures in English, and compiled Index to Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writings of Wole Soyinka (Greenwood, 1988).

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Language, Theme, and Image in Laurence Margaret Laurence: Novelist as Poet by Walter E. Swayze The Angel and The Living Water: Metaphorical Networks and Structural Opposition by Michel Fabre Stacey Cameron Macaindra: The Fires This Time by Lyall H. Powers A World Divided, A World Divined: Two North American Fictions by Neil Besner Narrative Structure in Laurence Hagar Shipley's Rage for Life: Narrative Technique in The Stone Angel by Alice Bell Sisters, Symbols, and Structures: A Jest of God and The Fire-Dwellers by Nora Foster Stovel Coherence in A Bird in the House by Bruce Stovel Dividing The Diviners by Ken McLean Multiculturalism in Laurence War in the Manawaka Novels as Macrocosm, Fictionalized Biography, and Imaginative History by Greta M.K. McCormick Coger Margaret Laurence of Hargeisa. A Discussion of A Tree for Poverty by Fiona Sparrow Laurence and the Ancestral Tradition by Cecil Abrahams It Was Like the Book Says, but It Wasn't: Oral History in Laurence's The Diviners by Lynn Pifer Feminist Perspectives in Laurence Self-Alienation of the Elderly in Margaret Laurence's Fiction by Rosalie Murphy Baum Coming to Terms with the Image of the Mother in The Stone Angel by Cynthia Taylor The Subversive Voice in The Fire-Dwellers by Mitzi Hamovitch Morag Gunn in Fictional Context: The Career Woman Theme in The Diviners by Susan Ward Wordsmith and Woman: Morag Gunn's Triumph Through Language by Laurie Linderg Writing a Woman Writer's Life: Celebration, Sorrow, and Pathos in Margaret Laurence's Memoir, Dance on the Earth by Alexandra Pett Bibliography

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NPB9780313290428
9780313290428
0313290423
New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism by Greta M. Coger
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1996-05-30
264
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