Margaret Atwood

ISBN-13: 9781403922014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str.

Coral Ann Howells

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This introduction covers Atwood's work from the end of the 1960s to the present, drawing out her recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and female bodies, and history and its narration. Winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book in 1997, the second edition is thoroughly revised and updated. It includes new chapters covering Atwood's recent novels Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, and her 2002 book on writing Negotiating with the Dead.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction: A Writer on Writing.- THE END OF THE 60s.- The Edible Woman.- THE 1970s.- Surfacing and Survival .- Lady Oracle.- Life Before Man.- THE 1980s.- Bodily Harm.- The Handmaid's Tale.- Cat's Eye.- THE 1990s.- The Robber Bride.- Alias Grace.- 2000 AND AFTER.- The Blind Assassin.- Oryx and Crake.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

CORAL ANN HOWELLS is Professor of English and Canadian Literature at the University of Reading, UK, and a former President of the British Association for Canadian Studies. Her previous publications include Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities (2003), which is also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Blurb

Margaret Atwood's appeal to a wide international readership is grounded in her versatility as a writer. Through a dazzling variety of generic forms - Gothic romance, science fiction dystopias, fictive autobiographies and historical novels - she revises the conventions of fiction.

This approachable introduction, by one of Britain's leading Atwood critics, offers detailed analyses of Atwood's novels from the end of the 1960s to the present. With reference to the author's poetry and critical writings, Coral Ann Howells draws out Atwood's key recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and female bodies, and history and its narration. Howells also explores Atwood's distinctive brand of postmodernism with its ironic mixture of artifice and moral engagement.

The second edition of this insightful text has been thoroughly revised and updated and now includes new chapters covering Atwood's recent novels Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, and refers extensively to her 2002 collection of critical essays, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book in 1997, this is the essential guide to one of the world's most successful contemporary authors.