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Motifs of transformation in four novels of Margaret Atwood
The dominant theme that Margaret Atwood foregrounds in her writing is that of victimisation, whether she is writing of the victimisation of a country, of a minority group, of animals or of an individual. She adopts the position that through acknowledgement of that victimisation, and a refusal to …
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Sinister Spaces: Liminality and the Southern Ontario Gothic in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
Margaret Atwood’s works are undoubtedly influenced by her academic training in Gothic and Victorian fiction. However, she also incorporates the influences of Southern Ontario – her backyard – and its regional subgenre of Southern Ontario Gothic. While traditional Gothic certainly incorporates …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Atwood’s concern for the environment has spanned nearly the entirety of her career, informing her fears about the future and providing the grounding for her speculative fiction. In Atwood’s understanding, ecological ruin stems from human estrangement from the natural environment, an estrangement …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Atwood’s concern for the environment has spanned nearly the entirety of her career, informing her fears about the future and providing the grounding for her speculative fiction. In Atwood’s understanding, ecological ruin stems from human estrangement from the natural environment, an estrangement …
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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
In their novels, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes …
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À sombra das palavras: re-visitando o cânone em A Tenda, de Margaret Atwood
… breves da coletânea A Tenda, de Margaret Atwood (2006), a saber: “Não é fácil ser Semidivino”, “Salomé era uma dançarina” e “A versão de Horácio”. Nestas, a autora proporciona uma re-leitura das personagens clássicas Helena de Troia, Salomé, e Horácio de Hamlet, a quem revisita através de …
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Dames of Distress: Female Violence and Revised Socio-Cultural Discourses in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… examines the figure of the violent woman in Atwood’s fiction as a productive starting point for the re-evaluation of various socio-cultural debates. Emerging from Atwood’s conviction that art, in its various forms, is often involved in the re-writing of convention, I begin by re-defining …
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"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum": Reproduction and Resistance in Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and the Alien Series
… Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy (1987-89), Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), and the Alien series (1979-97). I argue that these three texts resist patriarchal oppression upon the female fertile body. I examine how they rewrite and subvert such institutions as motherhood, the family, and …
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Symbolic masters/semiotic slaves : subjectivity and subjection in Atwood, with reference to The circle game and Two-headed poems
… circle game' and 'Two-headed poems', by Margaret Atwood. I argue that Atwood proposes a subject similar to the kind of subject found in psychoanalysis. Like the psychoanalytic subject, Atwood's subject is formed in relation to its other. This relation is essentially a power relation and can become …
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Design of experimental apparatus for generation and measurement of an aerosol
… Two different cases, one with the low effective Atwood number and the other with higher effective Atwood number are investigated. In the case of low effective Atwood number the instability evolved is more like RMI rather than SDMI which is due to domination of Gas Atwood number over effect Atwood …
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Distopias contemporâneas de língua inglesa: uma análise comparativa de O conto da aia, de Margaret Atwood e Vox, de Christina Dalcher
… impostas a elas em O conto da aia, de Margaret Atwood, e Vox, de Christina Dalcher. Com a intenção de identificar poder e violência; observar os papéis de gênero, explorando as relações entre personagens; e investigar os atos de resistência, nos fundamentamos na crítica literária feminista e em …
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Dynamiques du pouvoir dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood et Chroniques du Pays des Mères d'Élisabeth Vonarburg
… de cette thèse : une dystopie créée par Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, et une utopie critique créée par Élisabeth Vonarburg, Chroniques du Pays des Mères. Cette thèse vise à analyser comment ces relations influencent le message féministe des oeuvres à l'étude. Pour commencer, le chapitre 1, …
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Finding the goddess within : the goddess archetype in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Robber Bride.
… primordial feminine. An examination of Margaret Atwood's novels using Bolen's theory reveals the development of women's search for unification with the Goddess archetype. In Surfacing, Atwood's narrator attempts to return to a pre-patriarchal period when the Goddess was a unified whole, but …
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Fluids Viscosity Effect on Non-Isothermal Buoyancy-Driven Exchange Flow in Inclined Pipes
… flow is studied experimentally for different Atwood numbers, inclination angles and fluid pairs. The density difference drives the flow, that is achieved through added salinity for isothermal case and temperature difference for the non-isothermal case. Detailed benchmarking experiments were …
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'Everything Looks Different up Close': Perception in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
… MaddAdam series (a projected trilogy), Margaret Atwood explores a series of events from three very different perspectives. A close reading of the two texts suggests that the specific focalizers chosen, and their very different ways of perceiving the world around them, are central issues in the …
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Oblique Shock Wave Effects on Impulsively Accelerated Heavy Gas Column
… air. The effects of density gradient (Atwood number, A), shock strength (Mach number, M), and column inclination angle (theta) were examined. Concentration was measured using Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) of an acetone vapor tracer mixed with the heavy gas jet and illuminated …
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Das Bild Des Mannes Im Frauenroman Der Siebziger Jahre. (German Text)
… female writers from Austria (Schwaiger), Canada (Atwood), the Federal Republic of Germany (Struck), the German Democratic Republic (Reinig), the United Kingdom (Lessing), and the United States (Jong). In the examined novels men are portrayed as a patriarchal trinity: the son-man, the father-man, …
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Surveillance: The Digital Dark Side
… and personal identity as well. As Margaret Atwood states best in her review of <em>The Circle, </em>“When Privacy is Theft”:</p> <p> Publication on social media is in part a performance, as is everything “social” that human beings do; but what happens when that brightly lit arena expands so …
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