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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
… três narrativas 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 …
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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
… E. 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 …
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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
… violências 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 …
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Dynamiques du pouvoir dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood et Chroniques du Pays des Mères d'Élisabeth Vonarburg
… corpus 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 …
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Finding the goddess within : the goddess archetype in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Robber Bride.
… and the 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, …
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'Everything Looks Different up Close': Perception in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
… of her 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 …
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Open Endings and Questionable Liberation in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, Cat 's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale
… thesis project discusses the literary work of Margaret Atwood, specifically highlighting Alias Grace (1996), Cat's Eye (1989), and The Handmaid's Tale (1986). As part of the discussion, the project considers Michel Foucault's theories on how power and discourse shape the individual and Sigmund …
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Eugenic Utopia or Postmodern Peril? A Discussion of the Ethics of Reproductive Technology
… surrogacy today to the vision portrayed by Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale, this essay points out that we are potentially headed toward a more divisive, sexist, and litigious society in which children produced via surrogacy, as well as the surrogates themselves, become more and more …
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… to fiction by Michele Roberts,Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. Drawing upon a core mysticalproblem (the question of how to articulate the ineffable divine), women's mysticalexperience is seen as paradoxical and contradictory, with the female body and psychedivided between the …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
… tradition. Reading novels by Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood, the second half of my dissertation explores partially religious subjectivities that escape the Protestant-secular binary and expand American secular culture to accommodate alternative religious traditions on a potentially equal …
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Symbolic masters/semiotic slaves : subjectivity and subjection in Atwood, with reference to The circle game and Two-headed poems
… 'The 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 …
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The Oracle’s Dream
… well as established historical fiction authors Margaret Atwood and Ariana Franklin, who have pushed the boundaries of both these genres through innovative narrative techniques and feminist perspectives. By weaving together historical fact, myth, and doubled narrative, I hope to create a powerful …
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