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  • Sari: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2022
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350336734
  • ISBN-13: 9781350336735
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 216 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 236x164x20 mm, kaal: 480 g
  • Sari: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2022
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350336734
  • ISBN-13: 9781350336735
Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work

Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism.

In this invaluable guide, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwoods work. Addressing all of the authors key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential, and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. It highlights recurring themes in Atwoods work, such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures.

This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood.

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A valuable and necessary book for students, researchers, and enthusiastic readers of Margaret Atwoods novels. It offers both a substantial study of her fiction and a comprehensive overview of Atwood criticism up to the present, unequalled in any other publication. Covering all relevant thematic, genre, narrative, and contextual issues, it deftly guides readers through the rich diversity of critical responses to her work. * Coral Howells, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK * A timely exploration and overview of one of the most successful and critically acclaimed writers working today. * Modern Language Review *

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This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood, providing a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwoods work.
Introduction 1(8)
Biography
2(5)
Organization of this guide
7(2)
1 Early works and early reception: The Edible Woman and Surfacing
9(22)
The Edible Woman
10(1)
Overview
11(2)
Early reception
13(2)
The romance plot and fairy-tale gothic
15(2)
Fairy-tale imagery
17(2)
Consumption and the body
19(1)
Surfacing
20(1)
Overview
20(2)
Early reception
22(2)
Feminist readings
24(3)
A gothic novel
27(1)
Language and form
28(3)
2 A developing canon and developing themes: Lady Oracle, Life
Before Man and Bodily Harm
31(1)
Lady Oracle
31(1)
Overview
32(2)
Gothic romance
34(2)
Princesses and goddesses
36(3)
Life Before Man
39(2)
Overview
41(1)
Between romance and realism
42(2)
Consumption and survival
44(2)
Bodily Harm
46(1)
Overview
46(2)
A postcolonial novel?
48(2)
Touch and responsibility
50(1)
A healing comedy?
51(2)
3 `Are there any questions?': A focus on The Handmaid's Tale
53(22)
Overview
54(2)
Early responses
56(2)
What genre is it?
58(3)
Writing about feminism in the 1980s
61(2)
Offred's storytelling: Language and narrative
63(4)
Complicity, victimhood and responsibility
67(3)
Reading the conclusion
70(5)
4 Spotty-handed villainesses: Cars Eye and The Robber Bride
75(24)
Car's Eye
77(1)
Overview
78(3)
A fictional autobiography?
81(2)
Women beware women
83(2)
Art and representation
85(3)
The Robber Bride
88(1)
Overview
88(3)
(Hi)storytellers: Narrative authority
91(1)
Friendship/sisterhood/feminism
92(2)
Another gothic tale
94(2)
The conclusion
96(3)
5 History, memory and recovering the past: Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and The Penelopiad
99(22)
Alias Grace
100(1)
Overview
100(1)
Readerly desire
101(2)
Historical fiction
103(1)
The servant girl
104(2)
The quilt motif
106(1)
An anti-detective novel
107(2)
The Blind Assassin
109(1)
Overview
109(2)
A self-conscious storyteller
111(2)
A gothic tale of victims and villains
113(2)
The Penelopiad
115(1)
Overview
115(1)
Is it a novel?
116(1)
Reclaiming voices - the twelve hanged maids
117(2)
Classical revisions and re-readings
119(2)
6 Atwood's dystopian futures: The MaddAddam trilogy
121(32)
Oryx and Crake
123(1)
Overview
123(2)
Textual allusions in Oryx and Crake
125(2)
Our post-human future
127(2)
An ethical novel
129(2)
The Year of the Flood
131(2)
Overview
133(1)
Gendered futures
134(2)
Humanism/posthumanism
136(2)
Reading the conclusion
138(1)
MaddAddam
138(1)
Overview
138(1)
Narrative structure: Who speaks?
139(2)
After the Anthropocene
141(4)
Conclusion
145(1)
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
146(1)
The Heart Goes Last
147(1)
Hag-Seed
148(1)
The Atwood phenomenon
149(4)
Notes 153(23)
Select bibliography 176(15)
Index 191
Fiona Tolan is Reader in Contemporary Womens Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction (Rodopi, 2007) and has published widely on Atwoods work.