Coral Ann Howells (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

Ausgezeichnet: Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Award 2007
Herausgegeben von Howells, Coral Ann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 1st edit.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780521548519
• ISBN-10: 0521548519
• Artikelnr.: 20779235

Autorenporträt

Coral Ann Howells is Professor of English and Canadian Literature at the University of Reading. Her books include Private and Fictional Words, Margaret Atwood (winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Award in 1997), Alice Munro, and Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities. She is co-editor of Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter and editor of Where are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History. She is former President of the British Association of Canadian Studies and has been associate editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies. She has lectured extensively on Margaret Atwood and Canadian women's fiction in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, USA, and India.

Inhaltsangabe

Margaret Atwood chronology; Introduction Coral Ann Howells; 1. Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Biography/Autobiography Lorraine York; 3. Power politics: power and identity Pilar Somacarrera; 4. Margaret Atwoods female bodies Madeleine Davies; 5. Margaret Atwood and environmentalism Shannon Hengen; 6. Margaret Atwood and history Coomi S. Vevaina; 7. Home and nation in Margaret Atwoods later fiction Eleanora Rao; 8. Margaret Atwoods humour Marta Dvorak; 9. Margaret Atwoods poetry and poetics Branko Gorjup; 10. Margaret Atwoods short stories and shorter fictions Reingard M. Nischik;11. Margaret Atwoods dystopian visions: The Handmaids Tale and Oryx and Crake Coral Ann Howells; 12. Blindness and survival in Margaret Atwoods major novels Sharon R. Wilson; Further reading.

Rezensionen

'The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood boasts an impressive array of essays by international Atwood scholars.' Canadian Literature