Author: Margaret LaurencePublisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : British Somaliland
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An account of the author's life among the nomads of Somaliland (also known as the Horn of Africa).
New Wind in a Dry Land
Author: Margaret LaurencePublisher:
ISBN: 9789997545695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Margaret Laurence
Author: Donez XiquesPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459714695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence's first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence's early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence's "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.
Divining Margaret Laurence
Author: Nora Foster StovelPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575030
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
The Life Of Margaret Laurence
Author: James KingPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307367215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
Changing the Story
Author: Gayle GreenePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253206725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The feminist fiction movement of the 1960s-1980s was and is as significant a movement as Modernism, Greene argues here. Focusing on the metafiction of Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence, she traces the roots of this feminist literary explosion to the second women's movement and places these writers within a sociohistorical matrix, and at the same time creates a new literary canon. Greene also speculates on the future of feminist fiction in the current regressive period of edition (unseen), $17.50. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Background Notes
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Media ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Through the Waters
Author: Caleb S. LewisPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Links to the Exodus and the Day of Atonement are found throughout the book of Genesis. These links are so pervasive that, though often overlooked, they are an integral part of the literary strategy of the author of Genesis. The goal of Through the Waters is to aid the reader in understanding the book of Genesis as the author intended, taking into account its literary and historical features. The goal is not only to understand each section of the book of Genesis on its own but also to understand how each section contributes to the book as a unified narrative. As each narrative section is explored and explained, the presence of the Exodus motif, or pattern, and what will be referred to as the Two-Goats motif will be highlighted. As these motifs are understood in the context of the text of Genesis, it will be seen how they contribute to the literary structure and to the tensions, expectations, and hope created by the book of Genesis.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Broomcorn Experiments at the United States Dry-land Field Station, Woodward, Okla
Author: John Beardsley SieglingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broomcorn
Languages : en
Pages : 1722
Book Description
Somalia, a Country Study
Author: Harold D. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Somalia
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
General study on Somalia - covers history, revolutionary social change, physical geography, demographic aspects, social structure, Islamic religious practice, education, refugees, economy, agriculture, trade, government, legal system, politics, international relations, defence, etc. Bibliography, glossary, maps, photographs, statistical tables.