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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 1779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Very large soul: selected letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian writers.
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 26Issue: 1Page: 127-30

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 5984 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reading together and apart: feminism and/versus ethnicity in Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood: a conversation.
Author: and others Lynn Z. Bloom
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 29Issue: 1Page: 165-79

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Margaret Laurence's much admired Manawaka fiction - The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird in the House, and The Diviners – has achieved remarkable recognition for its compassionate portrayal of the attempt to find meaning and peace in ordinary life. In Writing Grief, Christian Riegel argues that the protagonists in these books achieve resolution through acts of mourning, placing this fiction within the larger tradition of writing that explores the nuances and strategies of mourning.

Riegel's analysis alludes to sociological and literary antecedants of the study of mourning, including the tradition of elegy, from Derrida and Lacan to Freud, van Gennep, and Milton. The "work" of mourning is necessary to move from a state of emotional paralysis to one of acceptance and active engagement. Laurence's characters "perform the work of mourning . . . returning over and over again to the key issues relating to loss," and, as Riegel's close examination of the texts suggests, are changed thereafter fundamentally and significantly.

As an important study of one aspect of Laurence's oeuvre, Writing Grief not only illustrates how Laurence's own preoccupations with mourning are figured, but also how different ways of working through grief result in renewed potential for consolation and connection, and "a renewed definition of self." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Manitoba History, published by Manitoba Historical Society on December 22, 2009. The length of the article is 1167 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nora Foster Stovel, Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings.(Book review)
Author: Sarah Klassen
Publication: Manitoba History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Manitoba Historical Society
Issue: 62Page: 41(2)

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Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book, about 80 pages in length, contains clear, readable information on a major Canadian novel. These studies are carefully designed readings of the novels; they are not substitutes for reading them. Each book is attractively produced and follows the same format, so students will know exactly what to expect:

A chronology of the author's life The importance of the book Critical reception Reading of the text Selected list of works cited ... Read more

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Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book, about 80 pages in length, contains clear, readable information on a major Canadian novel. These studies are carefully designed readings of the novels; they are not substitutes for reading them. Each book is attractively produced and follows the same format, so students will know exactly what to expect:

A chronology of the author's life The importance of the book Critical reception Reading of the text Selected list of works cited ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from International Fiction Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 874 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Margaret Laurence: Heart of a Straner.(Book review)
Author: Laura Strong Davis
Publication: International Fiction Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 33Issue: 1-2Page: 104(2)

Article Type: Book review

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