The Divine and the Body in Margaret Atwood: Surfacing - Ban, Cecilia
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The writing concentrates on the mythological and the contemporary aspect of Margaret Atwood''s novel Surfacing. According to the analysis of the novel the metamorphosis of the narrator into a beast is an answer to issues raised because of modern body politics and questions of faith in the novel. The inherent link between body and the divine is demonstrated when the narrator experiences a Shamanistic experience through her unusual experience of pregnancy. In the analysis of the relationship of the body and the divine mainly poststructuralist, psychoanalytic and feminist criticism was applied.

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Produktbeschreibung
The writing concentrates on the mythological and the
contemporary aspect of Margaret Atwood''s novel Surfacing.
According to the analysis of the novel the
metamorphosis of the narrator into a beast is an
answer to issues raised because of modern body
politics and questions of faith in the novel. The
inherent link between body and the divine is
demonstrated when the narrator experiences a
Shamanistic experience through her unusual experience
of pregnancy.
In the analysis of the relationship of the body and
the divine mainly poststructuralist, psychoanalytic
and feminist criticism was applied.
Autorenporträt
Born in 1983 in Budapest, Cecilia Ban studied English Literature
for her MA degree at Peter Pazmany Catholic University. As part
of a scholarship program she spent one year at Aristotle
University, Thessaloniki where the focus of her research was
contemporary criticism and gender studies. She lives in
London now.