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In the following essay, Eagleton applies the theories of French poststructuralist Pierre Bourdieu to a discussion of Shields's Swann as a work of metafiction.
Carol Shields's Swann provi...
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In the following essay, Sweeney argues that in Swann, Shields focuses on the meaning and ambiguity of feminist literature.
My department, like many others, is debating how best to incorporate minority...
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In the essay below, Smyth explores the meaning of identity for the protagonist in Swann.
We believe we are at home in the immediate circle of beings. Beings are familiar, reliable, ordinary. Neverthe...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1989, Thomas discusses Swann's illusive and complex nature.
No writer has shown us more clearly than has Carol Shields in Swann the paradoxical a...
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In the following review, Hegi discusses the issue of stolen identity in Swann.
What happens when literary criticism takes a writer's work so far from her intent that, finally, it loses its esse...
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Critical Essay by Mary Eagleton
