Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction

Foreword – Anne Giardini.-&nbsp;Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders.- Prologue: (Es)saying It Her Way: Carol Shields as Essayist – Christl Verduyn.- Part I: Essays on Carol Shields’s Short Stories.- The Short of It: Carol Shields’s Stories – Neil Besner.- Space for Strangeness: Carol Shields’s Short Stories – Coral Ann Howells.- “Be a Little Crazy: Astonish Me”: Carol Shields’s Improvisational Flair in&nbsp;Dressing Up for the Carnival&nbsp;– Nora Foster Stovel.- “Controlled Chaos” and Carol Shields’s “A View from the Edge of the Edge” – Marta Dvořák.- Part II: Essays on Carol Shields’s Novels.- “The Alchemy of Re-Imagined Reality”: Biographical Gothicism in Carol Shields’s&nbsp;Swann: A Mystery&nbsp;– Cynthia Sugars.- Transforming Love: Critical and Religious Discourses in Carol Shields’s&nbsp;The Republic of Love&nbsp;– Brenda Beckman-Long.- Shields’s Theory of Fiction Writing: Grief and Memorial in&nbsp;The Stone Diaries&nbsp;– ChristianRiegel.-&nbsp;Larry’s Party: Man in the Maze and “Where Curiosity Leads” – Warren Cariou.- Advice to Writers in Carol Shields’s&nbsp;Unless&nbsp;– Wendy Roy.- In/visibility, Race-Baiting, and the Author Function in Carol Shields’s&nbsp;Unless&nbsp;– Smaro Kamboureli.- Afterword: “Little Shocks of Recognition”: Carol Shields’s Book Reviews – Alex Ramon.-&nbsp; Epilogue: “Etching on Glass”: Carol Shields’s Re-Vision – Aritha van Herk.<div><br></div>