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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155521603321

Autore

Nischik Reingard M

Titolo

Engendering Genre : The Works of Margaret Atwood / / Reingard M. Nischik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , [2012?], c2009

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012

©[2012?], c2009

ISBN

1-280-69088-7

9786613667823

0-7766-1891-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Écrivains canadiens-anglais - 20e siecle

Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature

Authors, Canadian (English) - 20th century

Sex role in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Power politics : or, the end of romantic love poetry -- Murder in the dark : Atwood's inverse poetics of intertexual minuteness in her short fictions and prose poems -- Untold stories, fresh beginnings : Atwood's short stories -- Nomenclatural mutations : the development of forms of address and reference for female and male characters in Atwood's novels -- How Atwood fared in Hollywood : Atwood and film (esp. The handmaid's tale) -- On being a woman writer : Atwood as literary and cultural critic -- Survivalwoman, survivalcreature, womanwoman : Atwood as cartoonist -- From survivalwoman to literary icon : an interview with Margaret Atwood -- List of Margaret Atwood's comics.

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Margaret Atwood's works. This title approaches Atwood's oeuvre by genre - poetry, prose poetry and short fictions, short stories, novels, criticism, comics, and Atwood's involvement with film - and examines them chapter by chapter.