Margaret Atwood
Record details
- ISBN: 9781429837217
- ISBN: 1429837217
- Physical Description: 300 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Salem Press. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | About This Volume -- J. Brooks Bouson / CAREER, LIFE, AND INFLUENCE: On Margaret Atwood -- J. Brooks Bouson ; Biography of Margaret Atwood / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: "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 -- Shulli Barzilai / CRITICAL READINGS: 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 ; About the Editor ; Contributors ; Index. |
Target Audience Note: | 10-A. |
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Subject: | Atwood, Margaret 1939- Criticism and interpretation Women and literature Canada History 20th century |