Margaret Atwood: Crime Fiction Writer, Shead, Jackie

Автор: Margaret-Anne Hutton
Название: French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005: Investigating World War II
ISBN: 075466869X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754668695
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over 150 texts spanning 60 years. Filling a gap in the fields of both crime fiction and fictional representations of the War, Hutton`s book calls into question the way both this popular genre and the French theatre of World War II have been conceptualised and codified.

Автор: Bradford, Richard
Название: Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199658781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199658787
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Since the mid-19th century crime fiction has been one of the most popular sub-genres of the novel. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Bradford explores its origins and the features that define its varied style. He considers its role in popular culture around the world and considers why its classification as `literature` is still ambiguous.

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: Henry Winchester and G. D. Falksen
Название: Steampunk: Fantasy Art, Fashion, Fiction & The Movies (Gothic Dreams)
ISBN: 1783611227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783611225
Издательство: Flame Tree
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Описание: Imagine a world where steam is the main source of power, but the attitudes are distinctly futuristic - the romance of the past meets the technology of the future. Steampunk is a subculture on the rise and this is the book to show the art, the movies and the fashion.

Автор: Theodore F. Sheckels
Название: The Political in Margaret Atwood`s Fiction: The Writing on the Wall of the Tent
ISBN: 140943379X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409433798
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Описание: Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwood`s fiction, the author examines Atwood`s novels from "The Edible Woman" to "The Year of the Flood". He focuses on how the empowered act towards those who are constrained within the political, economic and social institutions that facilitate power dynamics.

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: Scanlan Margaret
Название: Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction
ISBN: 0691605254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691605258
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Is the historical novel the outmoded genre that some people imagine--form inseparable from romanticism, nationalism, and the nineteenth century? In this stimulating volume, Margaret Scanlan answers a convincing "no," as she demonstrates the relevance of historical novels by well-known figures such as Anthony Burgess, John le Carr, Graham Greene, Do

Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
ISBN: 1472527747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472527745
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Автор: Margaret Hallissy
Название: Understanding Alice McDermott
ISBN: 1643360272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643360270
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Alice McDermott--winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award, and three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--recently published her eighth novel, The Ninth Hour, to great critical and popular acclaim. Her previous books, including Charming Billy, At Weddings and Wakes, and That Night, have been lauded as crowning achievements of Irish American fiction. An Irish American Catholic born and raised in New York, McDermott uses multiple identities and a distinctive, nonchronological narrative style to create an unmistakable trademark. She currently serves as the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Understanding Alice McDermott begins with a brief biography and transitions into a linear inquiry of McDermott's published works. In addition to interrogating her recurring motifs of memory and heritage, Margaret Hallissy tracks various themes that appear throughout the novels--religion, generational trauma, geography, family, motherhood, and displacement--topics that intertwine and inform the mentality of McDermott's characters. This volume deftly leads the reader through each of McDermott's novels, seeking connections and facilitating conversations among her earliest and most recent works. Hallissy demonstrates a deep critical understanding of intersections in McDermott's canon. Her characters in some ways are beleaguered by society's perception of them--uneducated, lower-middle-class immigrants or children of immigrants--but are also positively defined by their collective dream of a lost homeland and the shared hardship of motherhood. By tracing the shifting themes and motifs through eight novels, uncollected short stories, and essays published during McDermott's fruitful career, Understanding Alice McDermott provides a window into the decades-long development of a contemporary master.

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.