Margaret Atwood : an introduction to critical views of her fiction

• Main Author: Wisker, Gina, 1951- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, > 1939-; studie; studies; kanadské spisovatelky (anglicky píšící) > 20. století; národní identita v literatuře; ženy v literatuře; literárněvědné rozbory; interpretace a přijetí literárního díla; Canadian women authors (English) > 20th century; national identity in literature; women in literature; literary criticism and history; interpretation and reception of literature
• ISBN: 9781403987129
• Physical Description: xi, 233 s. ; 22 cm

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The quest for identity: Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature (1972), Surfacing (1972)
• Constraining the feminine: The edible woman (1969), Lady Oracle (1976)
• Explorations, bones and murders: the short stories (1977-95); early short stories (1977); Dancing girls (1977); True stories (1981); Murder in the dark (1983); Bluebeard's egg (1983); Wilderness tips (1991); Good bones (1992); Bones and murder (1995)
• Violence, trauma and history: Life before man (1979), Bodily harm (1981)
• The oppressive future: The handmaid's tale (1985)
• Feminist Gothic: Cat's eye (1988), The robber bride (1993)
• No nearer the truth: versions of fictionalising: Alias Grace (1996)
• Rewriting history and myth: The blind assassin (2000), The Penelopiad (2005)
• Writers, readers, constructions of the real and the future: Oryx and Crake (2003)
• Re-telling old tales: Moral disorder (2006), The tent (2006)
• The end of the world? The year of the flood (2009)
• Conclusion