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The fiction of Margaret Atwood / Fiona Talon.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.A8 Z927 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolan, Fiona, author.
- Series:
- Readers' guides to essential criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
- Atwood, Margaret.
- Canadian fiction--History and criticism.
- Canadian fiction.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 199 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Biography
- Organization of this guide
- 1. Early works and early reception: The Edible Woman and Surfacing
- The Edible Woman
- Overview
- Early reception
- The romance plot and fairy-tale gothic
- Fairy-tale imagery
- Consumption and the body
- Surfacing
- Feminist readings
- A gothic novel
- Language and form
- 2. A developing canon and developing themes: Lady Oracle, Life
- Before Man and Bodily Harm
- Lady Oracle
- Gothic romance
- Princesses and goddesses
- Life Before Man
- Between romance and realism
- Consumption and survival
- Bodily Harm
- A postcolonial novel?
- Touch and responsibility
- A healing comedy?
- 3. `Are there any questions?': A focus on The Handmaid's Tale
- Early responses
- What genre is it?
- Writing about feminism in the 1980s
- Offred's storytelling: Language and narrative
- Complicity, victimhood and responsibility
- Reading the conclusion
- 4. Spotty-handed villainesses: Cars Eye and The Robber Bride
- Car's Eye
- A fictional autobiography?
- Women beware women
- Art and representation
- The Robber Bride
- (Hi)storytellers: Narrative authority
- Friendship/sisterhood/feminism
- Another gothic tale
- The conclusion
- 5. History, memory and recovering the past: Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and The Penelopiad
- Alias Grace
- Readerly desire
- Historical fiction
- The servant girl
- The quilt motif
- An anti-detective novel
- The Blind Assassin
- A self-conscious storyteller
- A gothic tale of victims and villains
- The Penelopiad
- Is it a novel?
- Reclaiming voices - the twelve hanged maids
- Classical revisions and re-readings
- 6. Atwood's dystopian futures: The MaddAddam trilogy
- Oryx and Crake
- Textual allusions in Oryx and Crake
- Our post-human future
- An ethical novel
- The Year of the Flood
- Gendered futures
- Humanism/posthumanism
- MaddAddam
- Narrative structure: Who speaks?
- After the Anthropocene
- Conclusion
- Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
- The Heart Goes Last
- Hag-Seed
- The Atwood phenomenon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-190) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781350336735
- 1350336734
- OCLC:
- 1313904755
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