By Marta Dvorak, Manina Jones
Claiming the 'ordinary' and 'extra-ordinary' as serious different types, members to this quantity discover the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complicated play with style and narrative process, and its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered point of view.
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A View from the Edge of the Edge 19 world form. Reports from the frontier, she called them, a lovely and accurate phrase that caught my attention. Perhaps, I remember thinking, this is what all of literature is: a dispatch from the frontier, news from the edge. Even given that the edges and centres of society are forever shifting, it does seem to me that the view from the edge offers a privileged perspective. Also freedom from cynicism if not from anger. Also a kind of real or willed innocence which is what I believe every writer must keep alive in order to write.
Perhaps, I remember thinking, this is what all of literature is: a dispatch from the frontier, news from the edge. Even given that the edges and centres of society are forever shifting, it does seem to me that the view from the edge offers a privileged perspective. Also freedom from cynicism if not from anger. Also a kind of real or willed innocence which is what I believe every writer must keep alive in order to write. As it happens, I’m somewhat acquainted with what it feels like to be on the edge.
At 10 & we met them in camp at Grinnell Io[wa] at 6 o’clock. ”17 The precise tone of these accounts is readily attributable to a particular age group of women: those of Shields’s mother’s generation and those who appear in The Stone Diaries and Thirteen Hands. 18 food and entertaining Of course, one is struck with how many times people’s (in particular, women’s) relation to food is mentioned in the work of Carol Shields. Entertaining and the preparation of food become central organizational structures in her stories as they do in social life.