Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
By (Author) Professor J. Brooks Bouson
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Continuum Publishing Corporation
18th November 2010
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
813.54
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
Collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.
Reviews
We welcome this new collection of essays on Margaret Atwood's later novels, the first to include a substantial section on Oryx and Crake. J.Brooks Bouson has assembled an international team of major Atwood scholars who show us fascinating new ways of understanding Atwood's fiction by highlighting features which range from magic realism to environmentalism and debt, trauma narratives, and her apocalyptic imagination. The critical inventiveness of these essays matches Atwood's own irrepressibly creative storytelling. -- Coral Ann Howells, Professor Emerita, University of Reading, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (CUP, 2009)
... readers should appreciate the series' clear purpose and excellent essays. The series is a welcome addition to scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction group review in CHOICE
Rather than limiting itself to a thematic study of the novels, Bousons volume finds its strength in the variety of foci among the nine individual chapters, which includes Atwoods adaptations of many literary genres and narrative techniques as well as such sociocultural issues as female victimization and environmental destruction. At the same time, the collection successfully foregrounds concerns that are central to Atwoods fiction, such as womens relationships to each other, to feminism, and to literary traditions, resulting in a well-balanced overview of the authors work and the scholarship on it. -- Tomoko Kuribayashi, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point * Contemporary Women's Writing *
Author Bio
J. Brooks Bouson is a Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA.
