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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.
Editions of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780521839662
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780521548519
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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.
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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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Coral Ann Howells
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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780521839662) and paperback(ISBN 9780521548519)