Margaret Laurence : critical reflections
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Margaret Laurence : critical reflections
（Reappraisals, Canadian writers, 23）
University of Ottawa Press, c2001
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This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.
Table of Contents
Introduction (David Staines) 1
The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence (John Lennox) 7
Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls: Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel (Christl Verduyn) 23
Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic (Helen M. Buss) 39
Margaret Laurence and the City (W.H. New) 59
The Figure of Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers (Birk Sproxton) 79
(W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text (Nora Foster Stovel) 101
Listening: Laurence's Women (Kristjana Gunnars) 121
Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning (Robert Kroetsch) 129
Margaret Laurence: The Shape of a Writer's Shadow (Aritha van Herk) 135
To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children (Janet Lunn) 145
Faith and the Vocation of the Author (Lois Wilson) 151
Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence (Joyce Marshall) 163
Contributors 169
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