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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor - 1939–, Canadian novelist and poet. Her writing treats contemporary issues, such as feminism, sexual politics, the fate of Canada and Canadian literature, and the intrusive nature of mass society. Her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale (1986), is set in a mid-21st-century American dystopia ruled by religious extremists. Atwood is a skilled and powerful

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Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms » Read Now
by Kathryn Van Spanckeren. 270 pgs.

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...Margaret Atwood Ad Feminam: Women and Literature Edited...Germaine de Stael By Charlotte Hogsett Margaret Atwood vision and Forms Edited by Kathryn...With an...
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Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics » Read Now
by Sharon Rose Wilson. 432 pgs.

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Intriguing investigation of fairy-tale images in Atwood's haunting fiction, poetry, & artwork.
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An Interview with Margaret Atwood, in Critique » Read Now
by Danita J. Dodson. 9 pgs.

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...An Interview with Margaret Atwood DANITA J. DODSON A s I read...myself for a phone interview with Margaret Atwood, I was astonished at the numerous...continuum of...
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The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature » Read Now
by Kathleen Wall. 232 pgs.

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...are Callisto figures. Two major works of the twentieth century, D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterleys Lover and Margaret Atwood Surfacing , provide contemporary variations of the...
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Fiction in the Quantum Universe (Chap. Six "Cat's Eye and the Subjective Author: Margaret Atwood") » Read Now
by Susan Strehle. 282 pgs.

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...124 Chapter Six MARGARET ATWOOD Cats Eye and the Subjective Author...vision of reality. Writers like Atwood, Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, Coover...in texts like Gaddis J R ...
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The Dominion of Women: The Personal and the Political in Canadian Women's Literature (Chap. 5 "'To Refuse to Be a Victim': Anti-Americanism in the Early Novels of Margaret Atwood") » Read Now
by Wayne Fraser. 194 pgs.

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This examination of the works of 18 women writers in English Canada's history demonstrates how Canadian women's literature provides rich insight into the social and political development of the country. Arranged chronologically from colonial times through the 1980s, the study provides in-depth...
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This examination of the works of 18 women writers in English Canada's history demonstrates how Canadian women's literature provides rich insight into the social and political development of the country. Arranged chronologically from colonial times through the 1980s, the study provides in-depth analyses of works of such notables as Frances Brooke, Ethel Wilson, and Margaret Atwood. Fraser's contention is that the literature, as a forum where women voiced their personal concerns, reflects Canada's political identity as a country with a continuing commitment to the essentially feminine values of compromise, cooperation, and international peace.
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Faith of a (Woman) Writer (Chap. 6 "Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Their Nineteenth-Century Forerunners") » Read Now
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien. 358 pgs.

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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34...
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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.
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Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel (Chap. 2 "The Word Made Man: Margaret Atwood") » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 180 pgs.

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An exciting study of novels by ten women writers who have combined the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life.
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Decade of Novels: Fiction of the 1970s Form and Challenge ("1972: Margaret Atwood, Surfacing" begins on p. 32) » Read Now
by Charles Berryman. 140 pgs.

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". . . clear and illuminating—Berryman is . . . one of the finest essayists of the contemporary scene to show up in print over the last decade."—STUDIES IN THE NOVEL
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The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (Chap. 8 "Margaret Atwood Inc., or, Some Thoughts on Literary Celebrity") » Read Now
by Graham Huggan. 328 pgs.

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Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?In The Postcolonial Exotic , Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their...
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Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?In The Postcolonial Exotic , Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption.Global in scope, the book takes in everything from:* the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series* from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system*from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'.This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.
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Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (Chap. 13 "Ms. Sammler's Planet: Margaret Atwood, Saul Below, and Joanna Russ Rescue the Female Child's Story") » Read Now
by Marleen S. Barr. 231 pgs.

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...Chapter 13. Ms. Sammlers Planet: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and Joanna Russ...sections, such diverse writers as Atwood, Bellow, Emecheta, Le Guin...words, as I explain...
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Reading Together and Apart: Feminism and/versus Ethnicity in Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood: A Conversation, in American Review of Canadian Studies » Read Now
by Lynn Z. Bloom. 15 pgs.

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...Ethnicity in Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood: A Conversation. by and...enthusiastic about Canadian Margaret Atwoods latest novels, while Donna...the situation is...
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Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, and "That Moodie Bitch," in American Review of Canadian Studies » Read Now
by Faye Hammill. 25 pgs.

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...Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, and "That Moodie Bitch...creative projections of her character. Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Beth Hopkins, Carol...and readers. The...
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You Are What You Eat: The Politics of Eating in the Novels of Margaret Atwood, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Emma Parker. 20 pgs.

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...politics of eating in the novels of Margaret Atwood. by Emma Parker...engaged in the same activity. Margaret Atwood displays a sensitive awareness...Berger 47). WORKS CITED...
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Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction (Chap. 4 "Sharp Appetities: Margaret Atwood's Consuming Politics") » Read Now
by Sarah Sceats. 213 pgs.

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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in the fiction of contemporary women writers. Sarah Sceats' lively analysis demonstrates that food and its consumption are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control...
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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in the fiction of contemporary women writers. Sarah Sceats' lively analysis demonstrates that food and its consumption are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control. Focusing on the work of Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis, she makes powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behavior, and engages with issues as diverse as cannibalism and eating disorders.
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Scene, Symbol, Subversion: The Evolving Uses of Mapping in Margaret Atwood's Fiction, in American Review of Canadian Studies » Read Now
by Theodore F. Shechels, Kathleen Mackin Sweeney. 21 pgs.

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...Evolving Uses of Mapping in Margaret Atwoods Fiction. by Theodore F...In several of her novels, Margaret Atwood offers a clear picture of Toronto...met in Toronto in 1997...