Adele Wiseman: Essays on Her Works

by Panofsky, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9781550711356
• ISBN10: 1550711350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc

Summary

This collection of essays details the complexity and diversity of author Adele Wiseman. Writing in several different genres, from children's books to plays and essays, Wiseman became one of the most renowned Canadian authors and won Canada's Governor General's award for her first novel, 'The Sacrifice'. With the success of her first novel at the age of 28, Wiseman came to prominence in both the United States and Canada quite early. Her second novel, 'Crackpot', about prostitution, has been the subject of current critical debate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
"The Hand of a Murderer, Hero, Artist, the Hand of Man": Rereading Adele Wiseman's The Sacrifice	p. 10
The Lurianic Background: Myths of Fragmentation and Wholeness in Adele Wiseman's Crackpot	p. 31
From Complicity to Subversion: The Female Subject in Adele Wiseman's Novels	p. 55
Adele Wiseman's Old Woman at Play and the Structure of Enigma	p. 68
"Let me get it right": Adele Wiseman as Essayist	p. 105
Adele Wiseman's Poetry and the Genesis of "Goon of the Moon and the Expendables"	p. 123
The Permissible and the Possible: An Interview with Adele Wiseman	p. 144
Biography of Adele Wiseman	p. 164
Adele Wiseman: Selected Bibliography	p. 167
Contributors	p. 171
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