The Worlds of Carol Shields

Introduction
     David Staines
To The Lighthouse
     Margaret Atwood
Art is Making: Carol Shields in Conversation and Correspondence
     Eleanor Wachtel
The Square Root of a Ticking Clock: Time and Timing in Carol Shields’s Poetry and Prose
     Anne Giardini and Joseph Giardini
All that “below the surface” Stuff: Carol Shields’s Conversational Modes
     Coral Ann Howells
Guilt, Guile, and Ginger in Small Ceremonies
     ElizabethWaterston
Revisiting the Sequel: Carol Shields’s Companion Novels
     Wendy Roy
Sarah Binks, Pat Lowther, and the Satirical Gothic Turn in Carol Shields’s Swann: A Mystery
     Cynthia Sugars
Assembling Identity: Late Life Agency in The Stone Angel and The Stone Diaries
     Patricia Life
Male Pattern Bewilderment in Larry’s Party
     John Van Rys
Departures, Arrivals: Canada/U.S. Migration and the Trope of Travel in the Fiction of Carol Shields
     Alex Ramon
“To Be Faithfull to the Idea of Being Good”: The Expansion to Goodness in Carol Shields’s Unless
     Margaret Steffler
Narrative Pragmatism: Goodness in Carol Shields’s Unless
     Tim Heath
Shields's Guerrilla Gardeners: Sowing Seeds of Defiance in a Middle-Class World
     Shelley Boyd
Cool Empathy in the Short Fiction of Carol Shields
     Marilyn Rose
The “Perfect Gift” and the “True Gift”: Empathetic Dialogue in Carol Shields’s “A Scarf” and Joyce Carol Oates’s “The Scarf”
     ElizabethReimer
Prepositional Domesticity
     Aritha van Herk
Grand Slam: Birthing Women and Bridging Generations in Carol Shields’s Play Thirteen Hands
     Nora Foster Stovel
Archives as Traces of Life Process and Engagement: the Late Years of the Carol Shields Fonds
     CatherineHobbs
The Voices of Carol Shields
     Joan Clark
The Clarity of Her Anger
     Jane Urquhart
My Seen-Sang, Carol Shields: A Memoir of a Master Teacher
     Wayson Choy
Carol Shields
     Martin Levin