Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood

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Table of Contents Preface......................................................................................ix Introduction..............................................................................1 1 Power Politics Or, The End of Romantic Love Poetry?................................17 2 Murder in the Dark Atwood’s Inverse Poetics of Intertextual Minuteness in Her Short Fictions and Prose Poems.................................49 3 “Untold Stories, Fresh Beginnings” Atwood’s Short Stories .........................................................71 4 “Nomenclatural Mutations” The Development of Forms of Address and Reference for Female and Male Characters in Atwood’s Novels .............97 5 How Atwood Fared in Hollywood Atwood and Film (Esp. The Handmaid’s Tale).....................131 6 “On Being a Woman Writer” Atwood as Literary and Cultural Critic ..............................169 7 “Survivalwoman, Survivalcreature, Womanwoman” Atwood as Cartoonist ........................................................195 8 From Survivalwoman to Literary Icon An Interview with Margaret Atwood ..................................253 List of Margaret Atwood’s Comics .........................................277 Bibliography..........................................................................281 Index.....................................................................................295 ...