Written in Stone: subverting the authoritative (auto)biographical voice—Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries and Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel.
Diaries imply true confessions, and readers wish to believe Daisy Flett’s life story in Carol Shields’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novelThe Stone Diaries(1994), but her layered narration, alternating first- and third-person narrative, proves problematic. “Death,” the final chapter, is particularly puzzl...
| Publicado en: | American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 513 - 532 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2016
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