113 course” (17) is even more problematic. Th e discussions of several of these novels as both metafi ction and metabiography are valuable, however, examining as they do “the critical and theoretical concerns of Shields’s fi ction in relation to women’s autobiographical practices” (19). At times BeckmanLong takes too literal an approach to Shields’s allusive and openended fi ction. For example, the evidence that BeckmanLong presents to argue that the narrator of Th e Stone Diaries is Daisy Goodwill Flett’s granddaughter, Judith, writing a kind of biography, is of necessity selective, with evidence omitted that might indicate the narrator is purposefully multiple and thus much more subversive than BeckmanLong’s analysis suggests. Similarly, BeckmanLong equates Mary Swann with the real Canadian poet Pat Lowther, and while there are similarities in their life trajectories, Swann is not Lowther, and thus the novel Swann cannot be read as her biography. Despite this correlation, the chapter on Swann is perhaps the most compelling. Other chapters make persuasive arguments but are marred by sometimes choppy prose and a few misreadings, such as that the unknown woman of Unless immolated herself in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, when the narrative makes it clear that one of the characters misremembered the news item: she actually died on the corner of Bathurst and Bloor where the character Norah sits. Despite minor errors such as this, BeckmanLong’s study will be appreciated by scholars who want to read about how Shields approaches the writing of women’s lives through complex representations of fi ctional women writers who tell their own and others’ stories. Wendy Roy University of Saskatchewan

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孤独的梦想家：约翰·G·内哈特的一生 作者：蒂莫西·G·安德森

113 课程”(17) 的问题更大。然而，将这些小说中的几部作为元小说和元传记进行的讨论是有价值的，因为它们在研究“希尔兹小说与女性自传实践相关的批判性和理论性关注”（19）。有时，贝克曼朗对希尔兹的暗指和开放式小说采取了过于字面化的方法。例如，贝克曼龙提供的证据证明《石头日记》的叙述者是黛西·古德维尔·弗莱特的孙女朱迪思，正在写一种传记，这必然是有选择性的，省略了可能表明叙述者故意多重的证据，因此比贝克曼龙的分析所暗示的更具颠覆性。同样，贝克曼龙将玛丽斯旺等同于真正的加拿大诗人帕特洛瑟，虽然他们的人生轨迹有相似之处，但斯旺并不是洛瑟，因此小说斯旺不能作为她的传记来阅读。尽管存在这种相关性，但关于斯旺的章节可能是最引人注目的。其他章节提出了有说服力的论点，但有时会被断断续续的散文和一些误读所破坏，例如《除非》中的无名女性在多伦多的弥敦菲腊广场自焚，当时的叙述清楚地表明其中一个角色记错了新闻：她实际上死在角色诺拉所在的巴瑟斯特和布鲁尔的角落里。尽管存在诸如此类的小错误，贝克曼龙的研究将受到那些想要了解希尔兹如何通过讲述自己和他人故事的虚构女性作家的复杂表现来接近女性生活写作的学者们的赞赏。