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Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
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Description
A collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.
Table of Contents
Problematic Feminisms Fiona Tolan \ 6. Narrative Multiplicity and the Multi-layered Self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin Magali Cornier Michael \ 7. "If You Look Long Enough": Photography, Memory, and Mourning in The Blind Assassin Shuli Barzilai \ Part III: Oryx and Crake (2003) 8. Moral/Environmental Debt in Margaret Atwood's Payback and Oryx and Crake Shannon Hengen \ 9. Problematic Paradice: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Karen Stein \ 10. The Apocalyptic Imagination in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Mark Bosco \ Notes on Chapters \ Works Cited \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index
Product details
Published | Nov 18 2010 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781441184504 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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We welcome this new collection of essays on Margaret Atwood's later novels, the first to include a substantial section on Oryx and Crake. J.Brooks Bouson has assembled an international team of major Atwood scholars who show us fascinating new ways of understanding Atwood's fiction by highlighting features which range from magic realism to environmentalism and debt, trauma narratives, and her apocalyptic imagination. The critical inventiveness of these essays matches Atwood's own irrepressibly creative storytelling.
Coral Ann Howells, Professor Emerita, University of Reading, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (CUP, 2009)
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... readers should appreciate the series' clear purpose and excellent essays. The series is a welcome addition to scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction group review in CHOICE
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This volume, like the author it discusses, teaches and delights while contributing to Atwood scholarship.
Canadian Literature # 210-211
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Bouson's collection, comprised of articles by well-known Atwood scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, is sure to be of welcome help for both students and faculty hoping to develop a well-roundedunderstanding of the author and texts... Rather than limiting itself to a thematic study of the novels, Bouson's volume finds its strength in the variety of foci among the nine individual chapters, which includes Atwood's adaptations of many literary genres and narrative techniques as well as such sociocultural issues as female victimization and environmental destruction. At the same time, the collection successfully foregrounds concerns that are central to Atwood's fiction, such as women's relationships to each other, to feminism, and to literary traditions, resulting in a well-balanced overview of the author's work and the scholarship on it.
Tomoko Kuribayashi, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Contemporary Women's Writing

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