Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii ‘Planted firmly in some soil’....Pages 1-15 ‘Leave the Dead some room to dance!’....Pages 16-34 ‘Some truer image’....Pages 35-45 Images in Stones, Images in Words....Pages 46-70 ‘All that happens, one must try to understand’....Pages 71-82 Double is Trouble....Pages 83-92 Weaving Fabrications....Pages 93-106 Identity in The Fire-Dwellers....Pages 107-118 The Realism of Laurence’s Semi-Autobiographical Fiction....Pages 119-132 Consolation and Articulation in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners....Pages 133-151 Acknowledging Myths....Pages 152-161 ‘There and not there’....Pages 162-176 Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners....Pages 177-207 Caliban’s Revolt....Pages 208-227 Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka....Pages 228-246 Back Matter....Pages 247-250