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In her Epilogue, “‘Etching on Glass’: Carol Shields’s Re-Vision” Aritha van Herk addresses Carol Shields as a writer, reader, and creative writing teacher in terms of the metaphor of “etching.” Through an exploratory close reading and ficto-critical response to Anne and Nicolas Giardini’s 2016 edition of Shields’ comments on writing gathered in Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing, the paper explores how to implement the wisdom and experience of this dexterous writer.
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Van Herk, A. (2023). Epilogue: Etching on Glass: Carol Shields’s Re-vision. In: Stovel, N.F. (eds) Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11480-9_14
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