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The handmaid's tale : teaching dystopia, feminism and resistance across disciplines and borders
The contributors in this collection analyze how their disciplines can add unique depth and context to many of the themes that are being mobilized in Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' and its screen adaptations. This book addresses how these themes apply to social issues and specific topics such as science and religion to the role of journalism in a democratic society.
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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.
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The Cambridge introduction to Margaret Atwood
\"Margaret Atwood offers an immensely influential voice in contemporary literature. Her novels have been translated into over 22 languages and are widely studied, taught and enjoyed. Her style is defined by her comic wit and willingness to experiment. Her work has ranged across several genres, from poetry to literary and cultural criticism, novels, short stories and art. This Introduction summarizes Atwood's canon, from her earliest poetry and her first novel, The Edible Woman, through The Handmaid's Tale to The Year of the Flood. Covering the full range of her work, it guides students through multiple readings of her oeuvre. It features chapters on her life and career, her literary, Canadian and feminist contexts, and how her work has been received and debated over the course of her career. With a guide to further reading and a clear, well organised structure, this book presents an engaging overview for students and readers\"--Provided by publisher.
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Margaret Atwood : The robber bride, The blind assassin, Oryx and Crake
A collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.
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In other worlds : SF and the human imagination
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as \"science fiction,\" a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: \"Flying Rabbits,\" which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; \"Burning Bushes,\" which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and \"Dire Cartographies,\" which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between \"science fiction\" proper and \"speculative fiction,\" as well as between \"sword and sorcery/fantasy\" and \"slipstream fiction.\" For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.
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Margaret Atwood's Apocalypses
Margaret Atwood's Apocalypses features essays by established and new Atwood scholars on Atwood's poetry, The Handmaid's Tale, and the famous MaddAddam trilogy. Readers will encounter ways to trace the theme of apocalypse through decades of Atwood's work, and lenses through which to view various fictional apocalypses, including disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.
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'I am a celebrated murderess': Female Criminality and Multiple Personalities in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace illuminates the history and mechanisms of the ties between criminal behavior by women and multiple personalities by contextualizing the representations and perceptions of the female criminal and the criminological and medical discourses during the nineteenth century. Atwood uses the mystery around Grace's crimes as a means for her enigmatic female protagonist to have agency, but only through the veneer of her multiple personalities.
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The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood
Offering a comprehensive overview of Atwood's ever-changing work, this second edition is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood's recent dystopias including 'The Testaments', and the television adaptation of 'The Handmaid's Tale'.
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Introduction: Atwood at 80
When Margaret Atwood celebrated her 80th birthday in November 2019, there was a feeling that the occasion called for a burst of applause – figuratively speaking. Around Europe, many Canadian scholars and Canadian Studies Associations responded with a range of activities. Slovenia contributed handsomely: first, with an event at the Univerzitetna knjižnica Maribor – Fourscore and More: Margaret Atwood at Eighty – and second, with this special issue dedicated to Atwood’s recent work.
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