ISBN:

• 9780791075692
• 0791075699
• 079105926X

Description: 188 pages.

Notes: Includes bibiographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction / Harold Bloom
• Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale and the dystopian tradition / Amin Malak
• Nature and nurture in dystopia: The handmaid's tale / Roberta Rubenstein
• "Trust me": reading the romance plot in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Madonne Miner
• The misogyny of patriarchal culture in The handmaid's tale / J. Brooks Bouson
• Off the path to Grandma's house in The handmaid's tale / Sharon Rose Wilson
• "The missionary position": feminism and nationalism in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Sandra Tomc
• The handmaid's tale: dystopia and the paradoxes of power / Glenn Deer
• Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: resistance through narrating / Hilde Staels
• Margaret Atwood's modest proposal: The handmaid's tale / Karen Stein
• What is real/reel? Margaret Atwood's "rearrangement of shapes on a flat surface," or narrative as collage / Marta Dvorak
• The handmaid's tale: "historical notes" and documentary subversion / Dominick M. Grace

LCCN: 00065839

Control Number: 179233

Series:

• Modern critical interpretations
• Modern critical interpretations.

Subjects:

• Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.
• Fantasy fiction, Canadian -- History and criticism.

Other Authors: Bloom, Harold.