New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence
Subtitle: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism (Contributions in Women's Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: May 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780313290428
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Laurence, Margaret - Prose & Criticism; Literary Criticism; American English; English; Sociology; Africa; Canada; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 20th century; Criticism and interpretation; Feminism and literature; History; Laurence, Margaret; Narration (Rhetoric); Women and literature
First sentence: To approach the subject of novelist-as-poet we might look at the verse that the young Morag Gunn in The Diviners tries to write for a Christmas poem, "The Wise Men" (89-90NCL, 89UC), verse which fills her with shame when Mrs. McKee reads her Hilaire Belloc's "When Jesus Christ was four years old" (91NCL, 66UC).