The handmaid's tale / by Margaret Atwood ; editor, J. Brooks Bouson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouson, J. Brooks, editor.

Series:

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.

Atwood, Margaret.

Handmaid's tale (Atwood, Margaret).

Fantasy fiction, Canadian--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, Canadian.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages).

Other Title:

Critical insights: The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2010]

Summary:

This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Margaret Atwood's novel, "The Handmaid's Tale". A chronology of Atwood's life, a complete list of Atwood's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.

Contents:

On The handmaid's tale / J. Brooks Bouson

Biography of Margaret Atwood / Karen Carmean, Karen F. Sein, Earl G. Ingersoll

The Paris review perspective / Jascha Hoffman

Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985) : cultural and historical context / Lisa Jadwin

Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale : critical reception / Dominick Grace

"This is the way the world ends" : Margaret Atwood and the dystopian impulse / Matthew J. Bolton

Feminism and The handmaid's tale / Jennifer E. Dunn

The handmaid's tale / Coral Ann Howells

"Trust me" : reading the romance plot in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Madonne Miner

"Just a backlash" : Margaret Atwood, feminism, and The handmaid's tale / Shirley Neuman

Alice in Disneyland : criticism as commodity in The handmaid's tale / Chinmoy Banerjee

Selves, survival, and resistance in The handmaid's tale / Elisabeth Hansot

"We lived in the blank white space" : rewriting the paradigm of denial in Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Danita J. Dodson

Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale : resistance through narrating / Hilde Staels

A body in fragments : Life before man and The handmaid's tale / Eleonora Rao

Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale : Scheherazade in dystopia / Karen F. Stein

The handmaid's tale as Scrabble game / Joseph Andriano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Handmaid's tale.

ISBN:

9781587656217

1587656213

OCLC:

1001535108