Research Catalog

Title

Margaret Atwood / editor, J. Brooks Bouson.

Publication

Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors

Bouson, J. Brooks.

Description

xx, 391 p.; 24 cm.

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. --from publisher description

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Atwood, Margaret, 1939- > Criticism and interpretation
• Women and literature > Canada > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On Margaret Atwood / J. Brooks Bouson -- Biography of Margaret Atwood / Shannon Hengen -- "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 / Shuli Barzilai -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 13-588

ISBN

• 9781429837217 (hc.)
• 1429837217 (hc.)

LCCN

2012009730

OCLC

777601648

Title

Margaret Atwood / editor, J. Brooks Bouson.

Imprint

Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bouson, J. Brooks.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Margaret Atwood. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013 9781429837217 (DLC) 2012009730 (OCoLC)820009884

Research Call Number

JFE 13-588