Guest lecture

“Fire along the Frontier”
Regulated Rage in Carol Shield's Academic Satire Swann

Nora Foster Stovel (University of Alberta)

Shield’s 1987 novel Swann: A Mystery reveals her rage towards misogyny and academe, which she satirizes acutely through her characters. Stovel will argue revenge resulting from personal injuries and insults to be Shields´s motive for writing Swann.

Rebelling against  traditional forms of fiction as well as possessing a feminist agenda, “Shields gives us a scintillating new form of fiction: comic metacriticism.” – Nora Foster Stovel

Date: June 5, 2018, 6 pm
Venue: Hörsaal 7, Geiwi-Turm, Erdgeschoss, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
Invitation

Organized by the Canadian Studies Centre and the Department of Amercian Studies