Margaret Atwood : the robber bride, the blind assassin, Oryx and Crake
2010
Book
In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpieces--The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. Providing new critical assessments of Atwood's novels in language that is both lively and accessible, Margaret Atwood reveals not only Atwood's ongoing and evolving engagement with the issues that have long preoccupied her--ranging from the power politics of human relationships to a concern with human rights and the global environment--but also her increasing formal complexity as a novelist. If Atwood is a novelist who is part trickster, illusionist and con-artist, as she has often described herself, she is also, as the essays in this critical collection show, an author-ethicist with a finely honed sense of moral responsibility. -- Book jacket.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780826430625
- 9780826424372
- 0826430627
- 0826424376
Description: viii, 203 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Negotiating with Margaret Atwood / J. Brooks Bouson
- Magical realism in The robber bride and other texts / Sharon R. Wilson
- Parodic border crossings in The robber bride / Hilde Staels
- You're history: living with trauma in The robber bride / Laurie Vickroy
- "Was I my sister's keeper?" The blind assassin and problematic feminisms / Fiona Tolan
- Narrative multiplicity and the multi-layered self in The blind assassin / Magali Cornier Michael
- "If you look long enough": photography, memory, and mourning in The blind assassin / Shuli Barzilai
- Moral/environmental debt in Payback and Oryx and Crake / Shannon Hengen
- Problematic Paradice in Oryx and Crake / Karen F. Stein
- The apocalyptic imagination in Oryx and Crake / Mark Bosco.
LCCN: 2010027814
Control Number: 2631577
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, [2010]Series:
- Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction
- Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction.
Subjects:
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Blind assassin.
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Oryx and Crake.
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Robber bride.
Other Authors: Bouson, J. Brooks.