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As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary criticism, and collections of her essays and reviews-Margaret Atwood is indisputably Canada's best-known contemporary au...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bouson, J. Brooks
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2013]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Atwood, Margaret, > 1939- > Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature > Canada > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • On Margaret Atwood / J. Brooks Bouson
  • Biography of Margaret Atwood / Shannon Hengen
  • "On being a woman writer" : Atwood's Canadian and feminist contexts / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
  • The critical reception of Atwood's works : a chronological survey / Coral Ann Howells
  • Whodunit : the mystery/detective story framework in Atwood's Alias grace and The blind assassin / Earl Ingersoll
  • From H.G. Wells's island to Margaret Atwood's paradice : bio-perversity and its ramifications / Shuli Barzilai
  • Margaret Atwood's poetry : voice and vision / Kathryn VanSpanckeren
  • "Consider the body" : remaking the myth of female sexuality in Margaret Atwood's poems in Morning in the burned house / Tomoko Kuribayashi
  • Gender and genre in Atwood's short stories and short fictions / Reingard M. Nischik
  • Atwood and the gothic / Carol Margaret Davison
  • "This is border country" : Atwood's Surfacing and postcolonial identity / Laura Wright
  • Hanging (onto) words : language, religion, and spirituality in Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Michael P. Murphy
  • Sexual trauma, ethics and the reader in the works of Margaret Atwood / Laurie Vickroy
  • Freed from the salt mines of virtue : wicked women in Margaret Atwood's novels / Sarah Appleton
  • The "historical turn" in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin and Alias grace / Alice Ridout
  • Surviving the waterless flood : feminism and ecofeminism in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, Oryx and crake and The year of the flood / Karen Stein
  • Postapocalyptic vision : flood myths and other folklore in Atwood's Oryx and crake and The year of the flood / Sharon R. Wilson
  • Resources : Chronology of Margaret Atwood's life ; Works by Margaret Atwood ; Bibliography.