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Frozen Touch in You Are Happy : The Rapunzal Symdrome and The Girl Without Hands, in Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics (Sharon Rose Wilson) in libraries (WorldCat catalog) The Transculturation of Mythic Archetypes: Margaret Atwood's Circe, in Amaltea: Revista de Mitocritica (Vol. 7, 2015) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born on November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction.
In The Penelopiad, Atwood re-writes archetypes of female passivity and victimization while using contemporary ideas of justice and a variety of genres. [10] The edition of the Odyssey that Atwood read was the E. V. Rieu and D. C. H. Rieu's translation. For research she consulted Robert Graves' The Greek Myths. [20]
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Atwood published her first poetry collection, Double Persephone, in 1961, prior to the publication of her novels, including The Handmaid’s Tale and 1988’s Cat’s Eye. She is now the author of ...
Morning in the Burned House is a book of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published by McClelland and Stewart in 1995. The book expresses themes, interests, and styles characteristic of Atwood’s poetry. These include attention to the landscape of the Canadian Shield, an air of foreboding, and poems addressed to an unspecified "you." [1]
As in most of Atwood's works, this collection of poetry explores many tensions or dualities such as the tensions between man and woman, perception and reality, and many more. The Circle Game focuses particularly on the tension between perception and reality; at first glance something may seem harmless or even friendly, but deeper inspection ...
The Door is a book of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2007. [1] [2]The poems of The Door demonstrate self-awareness on the part of the author. They confront themes of advancing age and encroaching death (Atwood was 68 in 2007), as well as authorial fame and the drive to produce writing. [3]