| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) |
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Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction |
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Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction.
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| Contents |
Negotiating with Margaret Atwood / J. Brooks Bouson -- Magical realism in The robber bride and other texts / Sharon R. Wilson -- Parodic border crossings in The robber bride / Hilde Staels -- You're history: living with trauma in The robber bride / Laurie Vickroy -- "Was I my sister's keeper?" The blind assassin and problematic feminisms / Fiona Tolan -- Narrative multiplicity and the multi-layered self in The blind assassin / Magali Cornier Michael -- "If you look long enough": photography, memory, and mourning in The blind assassin / Shuli Barzilai -- Moral/environmental debt in Payback and Oryx and Crake / Shannon Hengen -- Problematic Paradice in Oryx and Crake / Karen Stein -- The apocalyptic imagination in Oryx and Crake / Mark Bosco |
| Summary |
In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpiecesGÇö The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake . Providing new critical assessments of Atwood's novels in language that is both lively and accessible, Margaret Atwood reveals not only Atwood's ongoing and evolving engagement with the issues that have long preoccupied herGÇöranging from the power politics of human relationships to a concern with human rights and the global environmentGÇöbut also her increasing formal complexity as a novelist. If |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Robber bride
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Blind assassin.
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Oryx and Crake.
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| SUBJECT |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- fast |
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Oryx and Crake (Atwood, Margaret) fast |
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Blind assassin (Atwood, Margaret) fast |
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Robber bride (Atwood, Margaret) fast |
| Subject |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Literary studies: general.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bouson, J. Brooks.
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| ISBN |
9781441156327 |
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1441156321 |
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9781441184504 |
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1441184503 |
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9781472542618 |
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1472542614 |
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