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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Making extensive use of unpublished manuscripts in the Atwood Collection at the University of Toronto, McWilliams uncovers influences that shaped Atwood's fashioning of identity in her early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 Effects of the Internet on Social Relationships: ...

The Effects of the Internet on Social Relationships: ...

Joan D. Atwood; Conchetta Gallo

Esther Gwinnell (2001) posits that there are several predictors that a person is at risk of developing an online relationship even though they may be in a committed relationship in the real world. Unemployment, presence ofa psychiatric disorder ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
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 ...
Feminist Bookstore News

Feminist Bookstore News

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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 ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

The night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Robin Blaetz

In Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson

G. Harcourt

This section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Deborah A. Fraioli

(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Dirk Arend Berents

The appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

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I am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in  ...
Shark Island

Shark Island

Joan Druett

Praise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
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 ...
Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:

Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:

Joan Scott Curtis

She didn't. by Joan Scott Curtis © 2013 Joan Scott Curtis All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

clothing, see knight, Joan of Arc as: clothing; transvestism cult of [after her death] attempted suppression of, 4 centered on Domremy, 237 early promoters of, 181 growth of, 19th cent, 181 see also Joan of Arc: veneration of death of, see death:  ...
Business Week

Business Week

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Liam Roberts; 54, Liam Roberts; 55, (left) Joan Sydlow, (right Ron Joan Sydlow; 58. (left) Joan Sydlow, (right) Hunt Food & Industries, Inc.; 60, (left) The Toledo Blade. Appelbe; 67, Ray Fisher; 68,70, Coleman Co.; 72, (left) Ernest Reshovsky,  ...
A Watery Grave

A Watery Grave

Joan Druett

Joan Druett. A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT INTI-L; g BUOKS. Front Cover.
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Joan Bybee

This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee.

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