Title: Inscribed in stone : Margaret Laurence, Carol Shields, Jane Urquhart, and Cynthia Flood
Source document: The Central European journal of Canadian studies. 2008, vol. 6, iss. [1], pp. 117-122
Extent
117-122
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ISSN1213-7715 (print)2336-4556 (online)
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/116078
Type: Article
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Abstract(s)
Certain Canadian novels by women whose titles include the word "stone" use the motif as substance, symbol, and theme. In the hands of these writers, stone is an eloquent feminine metaphor and is at once timeless and time-defined. The paradox of this relationship is one of the defining characteristics of each work of fiction and of the connections between them, whether the narrative tells the story of exiles from history or participants in it.
Plusieurs romans d'auteures canadiennes contiennent dans leur titre le mot "pierre" qui apparaît aussi dans le texte comme désignation de la matière, comme symbole et comme thème. Entre les mains de ces auteures la pierre devient une métaphore éloquente du féminin, à la fois intemporel et limité dans le temps. Le paradoxe de cette relation est une des caractéristiques définitoires de chacune des oeuvres de fiction analysées et qui constitue aussi leur élément commun qu'il s'agisse d'une narration qui représente des exilées de l'histoire ou des personnages qui y prennent part.
References
[1] Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 178.
[2] Flood, Cynthia. Making a Stone of the Heart. Toronto: Key Porter, 2002.
[3] Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel (1964). Toronto: New Canadian Library, 1988.
[4] Sage, Lorna. Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers (2001). London: Fourth Estate, 2002, p. 159.
[5] Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries. Toronto: Vintage Books, 1993.
[6] Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001.
[7] Yeats, William Butler. "Easter 1916." Norton Anthology of English Literature, revised edition. Ed. M. H. Abrams et al. Volume 2. New York: W.W. Norton and Company Inc., 1968, II, 1579-80.
[2] Flood, Cynthia. Making a Stone of the Heart. Toronto: Key Porter, 2002.
[3] Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel (1964). Toronto: New Canadian Library, 1988.
[4] Sage, Lorna. Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers (2001). London: Fourth Estate, 2002, p. 159.
[5] Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries. Toronto: Vintage Books, 1993.
[6] Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001.
[7] Yeats, William Butler. "Easter 1916." Norton Anthology of English Literature, revised edition. Ed. M. H. Abrams et al. Volume 2. New York: W.W. Norton and Company Inc., 1968, II, 1579-80.