Margaret Atwood
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TextSeries: Macmillan Modern NovelistsPublication details: London Macmillan 1996Description: xi,185pISBN: 03335191607Subject(s): American Literature-Fiction | Margaret AtwoodDDC classification: 813.54 Summary: Margaret Atwood's appeal to a wide international readership is grounded in her versatility as a writer. Through a dazzling variety of generic forms - Gothic romance, science fiction dystopias, fictive autobiographies and historical novels - she revises the conventions of fiction.
This approachable introduction, by one of Britain's leading Atwood critics, offers detailed analyses of Atwood's novels from the end of the 1960s to the present. With reference to the author's poetry and critical writings, Coral Ann Howells draws out Atwood's key recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and female bodies, and history and its narration. Howells also explores Atwood's distinctive brand of postmodernism with its ironic mixture of artifice and moral engagement.
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Margaret Atwood's appeal to a wide international readership is grounded in her versatility as a writer. Through a dazzling variety of generic forms - Gothic romance, science fiction dystopias, fictive autobiographies and historical novels - she revises the conventions of fiction.
This approachable introduction, by one of Britain's leading Atwood critics, offers detailed analyses of Atwood's novels from the end of the 1960s to the present. With reference to the author's poetry and critical writings, Coral Ann Howells draws out Atwood's key recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and female bodies, and history and its narration. Howells also explores Atwood's distinctive brand of postmodernism with its ironic mixture of artifice and moral engagement.
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