Margaret Atwood : an introduction to critical views of her fiction / Gina Wisker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wisker, Gina, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.

Atwood, Margaret.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Contents:

The quest for identity: Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature (1972), Surfacing (1972)

Constraining the feminine: The edible woman (1969), Lady Oracle (1976)

Explorations, Bones and murders: the short stories (1977-95): Early 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, Bones and murder (1995)

Violence, trauma and history: Life before man (1979), Bodily harm (1981)

The oppressive future: The handmaid's tale (1985)

Feminist Gothic: Cat's eye (1988), The robber bride (1993)

No nearer the truth: versions of fictionalising: Alias Grace (1996)

Rewriting history and myth: The blind assassin (2000), The Penelopiad (2005)

Writers, readers, constructions of the real and the future: Oryx and crake (2003)

Re-telling old tales: Moral disorder (2006), The tent (2006)

The end of the world? The year of the flood (2009)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-229) and index.

ISBN:

9781403987112

1403987114

9781403987129

1403987122

OCLC:

768474300