Carol Shields
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Standard Name: Shields, Carol
Birth Name: Carol Ann Warner
CS
, an American-born Canadian novelist of the twentieth century, a low-key but passionate feminist, published a collection of poetry as her first book. Her earliest novel features as minor character a novelist whose stock-in-trade is to be Canadian but who is by birth (secretly) an American. Her novels probe the freight of meaning in the small change of ordinary lives, especially those of women, and the way that an ordinary person becomes an artist. They delight in self-reflexiveness, and combine self-conscious artistry with a disarming appearance of transcription from life. CS
also wrote short fiction and plays.
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Kennedy | A later novelist, Barbara Pym
, thought of The Heroes of Clone as pattern for a fiction setting side by side what researchers and biographers write of a person's life and then what really did... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Lively | PL
wrote in 2010: I feel now as though someone else wrote it. Lively, Penelope. “Guardian Book Club. On writing Moon Tiger”. The Guardian, p. Review 6. Review 6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Lively | As controversy has been Henry's domain, reading has been Charlotte's. For ever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. Reading has taught her how sex... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Lively | Personal reflections on plants are one of her subjects here, along with gardening history, her varied experiences of being in gardens, and writers who have preceded her in touching on or immersing themselves in the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Roughing It in the Bush is now considered one of the most influential and foundational works of Canadian literature. It has made a deep impression upon many Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood
and Carol Shields |
Literary responses | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Canadian reviewers were cool about the book. It provoked the Globe, for example, to write as if its entire readership were male: [e]ven when our sisters and wives make a conscious effort to compass... |
Literary responses | Susanna Moodie | Carol Shields
in her monograph on SM
offered a fairly stern judgement of her literary quality. Being paid by the page, said Shields, Moodie pads her work. Her straightforward expository style alternates with florid lyricism... |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | This was chosen as one of the year's best books by the New York Times Book Review. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Deborah Levy | Hot Milk was listed as one of the New York Times' 100 most notable books of 2016. Columnist Mariella Frostrup
called it mesmerising and slightly hallucinogenic . . . . I haven't admired a... |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | Reviews of this novel were mixed. Anita Brookner
expressed in the Spectator the view that O'Brien had failed to live up to her usual standard. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 231 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Publication evoked a chorus of praise Frank Kermode
, finding this a little miracle of a book, was not untypical. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 298 |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | In her own more recent book on Austen, Carol Shields
remarked that Warner here captured a brilliant life with her own sparkling prose . . . and demonstrated the powers of a short, short, short... |
Literary responses | Susanna Moodie | Hugh Latimer was particularly successful, and went through several editions and a sequel. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999. 32 OCLC WorldCat. Shields, Carol. Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Borealis Press, 1977. 70 |
Literary responses | Susanna Moodie | Carol Shields
judged this a more mature and civilized book than Roughing It in the Bush, less vivid but more reflective, and interesting in its portrayal of its author as having learned to accept... |
Timeline
25 May 1995
Naim Attallah
, proprietor of the Women's Press , published his first novel, entitled A Timeless Passion. Like all his other works, it was later asserted to be actually ghost-written, every word, by his employee Jennie Erdal
.
22 October 2002
The Booker Prize was awarded for the first time as the Man Booker Prize, its sponsorship having passed to the Man Group
, a Canadian venture capital company.