The Political in Margaret Atwood`s Fiction: The Writing on the Wall of the Tent, Theodore F. Sheckels

Автор: J. Brooks Bouson
Название: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 1429837217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781429837217
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: <p><strong>A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Atwood and the critical discussions surrounding her work.</strong> </p> <p>As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary criticism, and collections of her essays and reviews-Margaret Atwood is indisputably Canada's best-known contemporary author. Her works are taught in colleges and universities all over the world in a variety of courses, including women's literature, contemporary literature, and world and comparative literature. From the beginning of her career, when <em>The Circle Game</em>, won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, to the recent publication of <em>The Year of the Flood</em>, Atwood has been thrilling readers with her wit, incisive criticism, and complex characters. </p> <p>Edited by J. Brooks Bouson, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer. For readers who are studying Atwood for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of her life and four essays survey the critical reception of Atwood's work, explore its cultural anistorical contexts, situate Atwood among her contemporaries, and review key themes in her work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like Atwood's feminism and Canadian identity; her use of myth; her on the environment; her reworking of the mystery genre; and the elements of gothicism, spirituality, and trauma that recur throughout her work. Works discussed include <em>Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake</em>, and <em>The Year of the Flood</em> as well as selections from her mostly widely read short story and poetry collections. Among the contributors are Coral Ann Howells, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, Michael P. Murphy, and Sharon R. Wilson. </p> <p>Rounding out the volume are a chronology of Atwood's life and a list of her principle publications as well as a bibliography for readers seeking to study this iconic author in greater depth. </p>

Автор: Howells, Coral Ann
Название: Margaret atwood
ISBN: 1403922004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403922007
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Margaret Atwood is one of the most popular and enduring literary novelists of the late twentieth century. This introduction covers Atwood's work from the 1970s to the present, drawing out her recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and female bodies and history and its narration. Winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book in 1997, the second edition is thoroughly revised and updated and includes four new chapters covering Atwood's recent novels Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin, her 2002 book on writing Negotiating with the Dead and her latest novel Oryx and Crake, published in 2003.

Автор: Candy D`Cunha
Название: Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood`s Prose
ISBN: 1680531824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680531824
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Описание: Margaret Atwood is arguably the most renowned and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer, poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and environmental activist. In this incisive interpretation of Atwood’s prose, Candy D’Cunha argues that the novelist’s ecosophical vision provides valuable lessons that could help in creating a greater and more responsible awareness in the modern psyche about the environment.By exploring the works of Atwood, one can understand the need for a deeper rethinking and a clearer re-orientation in this area. Select novels, namely Surfacing (1972), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), bring out the principles of ecological philosophy by describing various aspects of the current ecological crisis. Duplicity in the norms and recognition, the degradation of the environment, consequent tragic dilemmas, and the general ghastliness of life are all found in Atwood’s oeuvre.A number of studies have been made on the thematic works of Atwood, such as feminism, quest for identity, power and politics, dystopian and utopian elements, but this book is the first ecosophical exploration of Atwood’s themes and concerns. This volume enables readers to propagate the requisite ecological wisdom for self-realization for the harmonious and just development of society. Interpreting Atwood’s works from an Indian perspective also helps to promote Indian ecological justice.

Автор: Shead, Jackie
Название: Margaret Atwood: Crime Fiction Writer
ISBN: 0367880938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367880934
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Exploring how Margaret Atwood`s fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. By revealing how her female protagonists confront their own complicity with hegemonic assumptions about gender, class and colonialism, Atwood invites her readers to part