Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

Marta Dvorak is professor, Canadian and Commonwealth literatures, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Manina Jones is associate professor, English, University of Western Ontario.

• Contributors include Carol Shields, Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Catherine Hobbs (Library and Archives Canada), Coral Ann Howells (Reading), Lorna Irvine (George Mason), Manina Jones (Western Ontario), Ellen Levy (Toulouse-Le Mirail), Christine Lorre (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Patricia-Lea Paillot (IUFM d'Aquitaine), Taina Tuhkunen (Nantes), Aritha van Herk (Calgary), Heliane Ventura (Orleans), Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison), and Lorraine York (McMaster)

"There is no collection of essays that so thoroughly, and from so many different points of view, takes up the vexed issue of the 'ordinary' in Shields's fiction and treats it as the extraordinary instrument that it actually is." Neil Besner, University of Winnipeg