The Shack

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Chronology of Margaret Laurence's Life and Works xi
4. Foreword xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction: “A Natural-Born Reformer” xix
7. Notes on the Text xliii
8. Essays about Laurence’s Writing: “Gadgetry or Growing”
9. Sources 3
10. Ten Years' Sentences 8
11. Time and the Narrative Voice 15
12. Half War – Half Peace: A Writer's Working Relationship with Publishers 20
13. Gadgetry or Growing: Form and Voice in the Novel 28
14. On “The Loons” 38
15. Eye on Books: The Writer as Performer 40
16. A Tale of Typewriters 45
17. Ivory Tower or Grassroots? The Novelist as Socio-political Being 50
18. Personal and Creative Essays: “The River Flows Both Ways”
19. Where the World Began 63
20. Love and Madness in the Steel Forest 69
21. Upon a Midnight Clear 74
22. Don't Whisper Sudden; I Scare Easy 80
23. The River Flows Both Ways 87
24. Salute of the Swallows 92
25. The Shack 97
26. A Fantasy Fulfilled 101
27. The More Interesting Country 104
28. Down East 114
29. Journey from Lakefield 119
30. Essays on Canada and Canadian Literature: “The Case for Canadian Literature”
31. Canadian Novels: Change in the Past Decade 127
32. Canada Still Too Canada-Focused 137
33. Voices from Future Places 143
34. The Case for Canadian Literature 150
35. Canadian Writers: From Neglect to Special Treatment 154
36. When You Were Five and I Was Fourteen 158
37. Books That Mattered to Me 161
38. (a) Introductions to New Canadian Library Editions 171
39. (b) Unpublished Speeches and Tributes 197
40. Essays on Nuclear Disarmament: “The Most Pressing Practical, Moral, and Spiritual Issue of Our Times”
41. A Message to the Inheritors 221
42. A Matter of Life or Death 226
43. The Artist Then, Now, and Always 231
44. A Statement of Faith 234
45. “Peace”: A Word's Meaning 239
46. Operation Dismantle 242
47. My Final Hour 246
48. Socio-political Essays: “Listen, Just Listen”
49. “Listen, Just Listen” 259
50. Quebec's “Freedom” Is a Vital Concern, but Freedom Itself Is That and More 265
51. Open Letter to the Mother of Joe Bass 268
52. The Greater Evil: Pornography or Censorship? 272
53. Statement – PEN 280
54. A Constant Hope: Women in the Now and Future High Tech Age 283
55. Afterword Rediscovering Margaret Laurence 291
56. Annotations 297
57. Works Cited 325
58. Index 335