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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

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The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.
Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman

Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman

Ellen McWilliams

Making extensive use of unpublished manuscripts in the Atwood Collection at the University of Toronto, McWilliams uncovers influences that shaped Atwood's fashioning of identity in her early novels, paying particular attention to Atwood's ...
Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and ...

Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and ...

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Strange Visions: Atwood's Interlunar and Technopoetics SHANNON HENGEN But this is Canada, land of contrasts. Margaret Atwood, “Survival, Then and Now” [Nature is] a living process which includes opposites: life and death. . . . [M]an ...
Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact

Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact

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A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Coral A. Howells

Winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book in 1997, this is the essential guide to one of the world's most successful contemporary authors.
Dancing Girls

Dancing Girls

Margaret Atwood

This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence.
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood's Fiction: Dress, ...

Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood's Fiction: Dress, ...

Cynthia G. Kuhn

See also Shannon Hengen's study on mirror imagery, in which she points out that there is a difference between "Atwood's sense of the mirroring effects of literature, among its central functions in her view, and the figure of the mirror itself.
Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction

Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction

Fiona Tolan

Examining in detail the concerns and choices of an author who has frequently been termed feminist but has famously rejected the label on many occasions, this book traces the influences of feminism in Atwood's work and simultaneously plots ...
Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx ...

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx ...

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Just as Atwood is conducting a dialogue with scientists and bioengineers in Oryx and Crake, she also, as Shannon Hengen shows, is carrying on a conversation with contemporary thinkers in the fields of economics, geophysics, and biology ...
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A New Guide for Teaching One of Today's Most Popular Feminist Authors Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen, eds. MARGARET ATWOOD'S ...
Conte de la servante

Conte de la servante

Jean-Michel Lacroix

Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York : Modern Language Association, 1996. 122-27. Brydon, Diana. "Beyond Violent Dualities : Atwood in Postcolonial Contexts", Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The ...
Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood

Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood

Paul Lee Thomas

Paul Lee Thomas. rialistic lives, these are valuable and difficult considerations that profoundly impact how they view the value of writing and the value of themselves as writers. ENTRY POINTS In Chapter Three, Atwood references a number of ...
Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980

Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980

Marquis Who's Who

Helen Vincent (Mrs. Sheldon M. Atlas) Attiyate-Schwarzenbach, Yvonne Helene Attneave, Carolyn (Adams) Lewis Atwood, Ann Margaret Atwood. Margaret Eleanor Austin, Elizabeth Springer Austin, Patricia Avery. Mary Ellen Avram. Henriette ...
Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

Lorraine York

... and Thomas 41—62. Print. VIarshall, P. David. Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. Print. VIarshall, P., ed. New Media Cultures. London: Arnold, 2004. Print. VIartin, Sandra. “Atwood ...
The genealogy of the Thomas Atwood family

The genealogy of the Thomas Atwood family

Alma Atwood Denny

She married Randall Lewis Farrow on May 5, l967 and they have two children, MARTI LYNN and TOBY SLADE FARROW. (a). MARTI LYNN FARROW, born Jan. 7, l968. (b) TOBY SLADE FARROW, born June l2, l969. S. STANLEY THOMAS ...
Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the ...

Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the ...

Elizabeth George

Accompanying him are Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, John Irving, Margaret Atwood , Barbara Kingsolver, P.D. James, J. Wallis Martin, Martin Cruz Smith, Alice Hoffman, Pat Conroy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, T. Jefferson Parker, and Robert Crais, ...
America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose

America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose

James E. Atwood

Virginia Center For Public Safety and Freedom for All. March 19, 2010. 12. Cheryl Thompson, “The Hidden Life of Guns,” Washington Post, December 5, 2010. 13. Doris Bloodsworth, Orlando Sentinel, 2001. 14. “Gun Shows Are 158 AMERICA ...
Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on ...

Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on ...

Larry D. Lankton

Richard Fields, Nancy Fisher, Efstathios Pappas, John Griebel, Gary Kaunonen, and Scott See wrote helpful master's theses on Copper Country history. James Rudkin, Shannon Bennett, Stephanie Atwood, and Vanessa McLean, graduate ...
The handmaid's tale

The handmaid's tale

Margaret Atwood

Science fiction-roman.
Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Heather Allison Long

... Crowne, Jacques, -* Crown, James, - Crowne, James, - Crown, James, b Crown, James, - Crown, James, Jr., - Crown, James, w Cro[w]n, James, - Crown, James, w Crown, James, - Crown, James, - Crown, James, - Crown, James, - Crown, ...
Bodily Harm

Bodily Harm

Margaret Atwood

Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem.
Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Mike Bartlett

James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda Yeah. I was. Idiot. I knew about roaming patrol. So I was jumpy. I stood up and tried to see.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Coral Ann Howells

The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level
The Door

The Door

Margaret Atwood

A collection of poems that gravitate between the personal and political, the lyrical and meditative, and the ironic and prophetic, exploring such themes as the writing of poetry, the awareness of mortality, and the passage of time.
Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion

Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion

Nathalie Cooke

Examines the works of the Canadian author, describing her characters, narrative and strategies, plot development, literary devices, settings, and major themes.
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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... but “to allow certain tendencies in modern society to spin forward without the brake of sentiment and humaneness.”3 3. Binary Oppositions: Dystopias dramatize the eternal conflict between individual 82 AMIN MALAK ON ATWOOD IN THE ...
The Year Of The Flood

The Year Of The Flood

Margaret Atwood

Some were genuine converts, but others didn't stay long. They'd be there for a while, wearing ... This was guesswork: it hadn't taken Toby long to realize that the Gardeners did not welcome personal questions. Where you'd come from, what ...

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