The fourth chapter examines the disparity between the typescript's and the novel's entries relating to religion.
Chapter Three outlines the deletions and the corresponding entries in the published text. The second chapter explores the tension between the private and public spheres in the text and the themes which make The Stone Angel an example of Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine and a model of feminist literature. Chapter One is an overview of the existing criticism of the text of The Stone Angel, particularly articles which relate to themes in this thesis. The introduction presents the very private, shy Margaret Laurence and her work habits. To my mind, Hagar Shipley's uneasiness with a shifting private/public world offers a glimpse of the tension with which Laurence herself was struggling. Second, the degree to which societal/cultural constraints informed Laurence's authorial censorship cannot be ignored. First, the disparities between Laurence's private work and the product she presents to a public audience illustrate the gender confinement Laurence experienced as a woman writing in the early sixties. The purpose of such an examination is two-fold. This thesis will compare the typescript of The stone Angel to the published version. These deletions are most compelling and expose Laurence 's insecurity in writing from a female subject position. However, many of the deletions have a much broader implication and reveal Laurence's internal struggle. Admittedly, some of Laurence's deletions are the result of a refinement in her craftsmanship and scholarship. Nonetheless, there is a marked tension between the typescript and the novel. Such a position in The Stone Angel becomes a locus of power. In so doing, the narrative offers a discourse which affirms a confessional, personal and sometimes neurotic female subject position.
Laurence's novel, It celebrates the, "- female and in so doing becomes a paradigm of Hélène Cixous's "writing with a difference." The stone Angel is a novel in which Laurence purposefully invites readers into the world of women. Also there are a great many male novelists and it is about time more women wrote about women" (Woodcock 204). In an interview with Michel Fabre she contends that "there are certain things I can get at only through women. ordinariness, dirt, earth, blood, yelling a few messy kids" (Laurence 130).
Her novels are self-consciously about "Physical reality. Margaret Laurence confesses in Dance on the Earth: A Memoir that she felt compelled to write about something that women's published writing was lacking. The Crafting of Concealment: A Comparative Study of the Typescript and Text of Margaret Laurence's The Stone AngelĮnglish Language and Literature English Language and Literature Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
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