Margaret Atwood

Summary: 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 author. Edited by J. Brooks Bouson, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer.--Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781429837217
ISBN: 1429837217
Physical Description: print
xx, 391 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing, 2012.

Content descriptions

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.