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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and ...
PreviewStrange 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 ...
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
PreviewThe 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
Ellen McWilliamsMaking extensive use of unpublished manuscripts in the Atwood Collection at the University of Toronto, McWilliams uncovers influences that shaped Atwood's fashioning of identity in her early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: Works and Impact
PreviewA collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Margaret Atwood
Coral A. HowellsWinner 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
Margaret AtwoodThis 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
Margaret AtwoodBut 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
Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980
Marquis Who's WhoHelen 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 ...
Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood's Fiction: Dress, ...
Cynthia G. KuhnSee 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
Fiona TolanExamining 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 ...
PreviewJust 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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More editionsA 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 ...
Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood
Paul Lee ThomasPaul 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 ...
Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun: Canadian ...
David StouckFeaturing exchanges with Earle Birney, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood, among others, this collection exposes the conditions of cultural work in Canada for much of the twentieth century.
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 ...
Once upon a Time: Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret ...
Preview47 Staging Penelope: Margaret Atwood's Changing Audience Shannon Hengen Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 57 “We Can't Help but Be Modern”: The Penelopiad Coral Ann Howells Chapter Five .
Bodily Harm
Margaret AtwoodRennie 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.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Coral Ann HowellsThe 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
Margaret AtwoodA 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
Nathalie CookeExamines the works of the Canadian author, describing her characters, narrative and strategies, plot development, literary devices, settings, and major themes.
The Year Of The Flood
Margaret AtwoodSome 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 ...
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Lewis HydeA new edition with an introduction by Margaret Atwood The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society.
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women
More editionsGeorge Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, and others give free play to their imaginations in stories of fantasy and science fiction
Drowning in Rational Discourse: Strategies of Survival in ...
PreviewI will then investigate the ways in which women negotiate rationality both within and beyond the social structure through analysis of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks. Introduction ...
The Quarterly
More editionsAnd so all but the first of those ventures fizzled. (Atwood Manley & Margaret Manley Mangum, Frederic Remington and the North Country, 1988, pp. 218-21) But in 1918 Sally Farnham proposed to John Howard to do something on her own to ...
Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her ...
Gina WiskerReligious fundamentalism and the perversion of religion in Gilead are themes taken up by Anne Kaler,17 who sees the novel deploying both science fiction formulae and the strategies of autobiography and metafiction. It is highly political and ...
Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood
Reingard M. NischikSeveral people were very helpful in the preparation of this volume: Julia Breitbach, Georgiana Banita, and Florian Freitag went through the manuscript and made excellent suggestions for change, as did Emily Petermann and Christina Duck ...
The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia ...
Margaret AtwoodZenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman's nightmare.
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