Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction
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Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction

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Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction

About this book

Margaret Atwood is an internationally renowned, highly versatile author whose work creatively explores what it means to be human through genres ranging from feminist fable to science fiction and Gothic romance. In this timely new study, Gina Wisker reassesses Atwood's entire fictional output to date, providing both original analysis and a lively overview of the criticism surrounding her work. Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction:
- Covers all of Atwood's novels as well as her short stories.
- Surveys the critical reception of her fiction and the fascinating debates developed by key Atwood critics.
- Explores the main approaches to reading Atwood's work and examines issues such as her interventions in genre writing and ecology, as well as her feminism, post-feminism and narrative usage, both conventional and experimental. Concise and approachable, this is an ideal volume for anyone studying the fiction of this major contemporary writer.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781403987129
eBook ISBN
9780230357952
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. A List of Abbreviations
  8. A Note on the Text
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Quest for Identity: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972), Surfacing (1972)
  11. 2 Constraining the Feminine: The Edible Woman (1969), Lady Oracle (1976)
  12. 3 Explorations, Bones and Murders: The Short Stories (1977–95): Early Short Stories (1977), Dancing Girls (1977), True Stories (1981), Murder in the Dark (1983), Bluebeard’s Egg (1983), Wilderness Tips (1991), Good Bones (1992), Bones and Murder (1995) 53
  13. 4 Violence, Trauma and History: Life Before Man (1979), Bodily Harm (1981)
  14. 5 The Oppressive Future: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
  15. 6 Feminist Gothic: Cat’s Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993) 99
  16. 7 No Nearer the Truth: Versions of Fictionalising: Alias Grace (1996)
  17. 8 Rewriting History and Myth: The Blind Assassin (2000), The Penelopiad (2005)
  18. 9 Writers, Readers, Constructions of the Real and the Future: Oryx and Crake (2003)
  19. 10 Re-telling Old Tales: Moral Disorder (2006), The Tent (2006)
  20. 11 The End of the World?: The Year of the Flood (2009)
  21. 12 Conclusion
  22. Notes
  23. Appendix: The Works of Margaret Atwood
  24. Select Bibliography
  25. Index