The fiction of Margaret Atwood:
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London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Bloomsbury Academic
2023
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Contents Introduction Biography Organization of this guide 1 2 7 1 Early works and early reception: The Edible Woman and Surfacing The Edible Woman Overview Early reception The romance plot and fairy-tale gothic Fairy-tale imagery Consumption and the body Surfacing Overview Early reception Feminist readings A gothic novel Language and form 9 10 11 13 15 17 19 20 20 22 24 27 28 2 A developing canon and developing themes: Lady Oracle, Life Before Man and Bodily Harm Lady Oracle Overview Gothic romance Princesses and goddesses Life Before Man Overview Between romance and realism Consumption and survival Bodily Harm Overview A postcolonial novel? Touch and responsibility A healing comedy? 31 31 32 34 36 39 41 42 44 46 46 48 50 51
Contents X 3 ‘Are there any questions?’: A focus on The Handmaids Tale Overview Early responses What genre is it? Writing about feminism in the 1980s Offred's storytelling: Language and narrative Complicity, victimhood and responsibility Reading the conclusion 53 54 56 58 61 63 67 70 4 Spotty-handed villainesses: Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride Cats Eye Overview A fictional autobiography? Women beware women Art and representation The Robber Bride Overview (Hi)storytellers: Narrative authority Friendship/sisterhood/feminism 75 77 78 81 83 85 88 88 91 92 Another gothic tale The conclusion 5 History, memory and recovering the past: Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and The Penelopiad Alias Grace Overview Readerly desire Historical fiction The servant girl The quilt motif An anti-detective novel The Blind Assassin Overview A self-conscious storyteller A gothic tale of victims and villains The Penelopiad Overview Is it a novel? Reclaiming voices - the twelve hanged maids Classical revisions and re-readings 94 96 99 100 100 101 103 104 106 107 109 109 111 113 115 115 116 117 119
Contents 6Atwood’s dystopian futures: The MaddAddam trilogy Oryx and Crake Overview Textual allusions in Oryx and Crake Our post-human future An ethical novel The Year of the Flood xi 121 123 123 125 127 129 131 Overview 133 Gendered futures 134 Humanism/posthumanism 136 Reading the conclusion 138 MaddAddam 138 Overview 138 Narrative structure: Who speaks? 139 After the Anthropocene 141 Conclusion 145 Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales The Heart Goes Last 146 147 Hag-Seed 148 The Atwood phenomenon 149 Notes 153 Select bibliography Index 176 191
Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant contemporary writers. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism. In this invaluable guide to Atwood's work, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to her writing and considers Atwood's work within contemporary social contexts. Addressing all of the author's key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. Examining recurring themes such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures, this guide covers all key thematic, genre and narrative issues in Atwood's work. This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood. |
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