{"product_id":"carol-shields-and-the-writer-critic-brenda-beckman-long-9781442645707","title":"Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935-2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields' critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCarol Shields and the Writer-Critic\u003c\/em\u003e, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that project through the study of Shields' extensive oeuvre, including her fiction and criticism. Beckman-Long brings depth to her analysis through close readings of six novels, including the award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Stone Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e. Elliptical, open-ended, and concerned with women writing about women, these novels reveal Shields' critique of dominant masculine discourses and her deep engagement with the long tradition of women's life writing. Beckman-Long's original archival research attests to Shields' preoccupation with the changing efforts of waves of feminist activism and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA much needed reappraisal of Shields's innovative work, \u003cem\u003eCarol Shields and the Writer-Critic\u003c\/em\u003e contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenda Beckman-Long\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442645709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442645707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Brenda Beckman-Long","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48622245839103,"sku":"9781442645707","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carol-shields-and-the-writer-critic-brenda-beckman-long-9781442645707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}