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About Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood's dystopian literary masterpiece tells the story of Offred, a Handmaid living in the near future in what was once the United States. A new theocratic regime called the Republic of Gilead has come to power and changed life as she knew it.
Once Offred had a her own name and a loving family--a husband and daughter--both of which were taken from her; now she belongs to the Commander and his hostile wife, and her only value lies in her ability to bear a child for them. She used to read books and learn; now such things are forbidden to all women.
Gripping, disturbing, and so relevant today, The Handmaid's Tale is a brilliant novel and a chilling warning about what can happen when extreme ideas are taken to their logical conclusions.
The summary and analysis in this book are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of fiction.
Название: Cambridge companion to science fiction ISBN: 0521016576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521016575 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields; it draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from different angles.
Автор: J. Brooks Bouson Название: Margaret Atwood ISBN: 1429837217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781429837217 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 107190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. 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: Ingrid Bertrand Название: Biblical Women in Contemporary Novels in English: From Margaret Atwood to Jenny Diski ISBN: 9004390308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004390300 Издательство: Brill Цена: 150090.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: How are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? In Biblical Women in Contemporary Novels in English, Ingrid Bertrand presents a detailed analysis of biblical rewritings by Roberts, Atwood, Tennant, Diamant and Diski focusing on six different women (Eve, Noah’s wife, Sarah, Bilhah, Dinah and Mary Magdalene). She shows how these heroines give themselves a voice that rests not only on words but also on silences. Exploring the many forms that silence can take, she presents an innovative typology that sheds new light on this profoundly meaningful phenomenon.
Автор: Candy D`Cunha Название: Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood`s Prose ISBN: 1680531824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680531824 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 117000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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 Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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
Автор: Howells Coral Ann Название: The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood ISBN: 1108707637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108707633 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offering a comprehensive overview of Atwood`s ever-changing work, this second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood`s recent dystopias including The Testaments, and the television adaptation of The Handmaid`s Tale.
Автор: Bouson J. Brooks, Graham Sarah Название: Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, the Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake ISBN: 0826430627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826430625 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 65830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Features a collection of essays that offers contemporary critical readings and assessments of three Atwood texts - "The Robber Bride", "The Blind Assassin", and "Oryx and Crake".
Автор: Steel Название: The Cambridge Companion to Cicero ISBN: 0521729807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521729802 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comprehensive introduction to Cicero`s writings for students and non-specialists. Draws on recent transformative research on the political and literary culture of the late Roman Republic and presents important new research on Cicero`s reception in late antiquity and from the Renaissance period onwards.
Автор: Howells, Coral Ann Название: Margaret atwood ISBN: 1403922004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403922007 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 95950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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.
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