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Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood
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Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize.
In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism, comics, and film – and examines them individually. She explores how Atwood has developed her genres to be gender-sensitive in both content and form and argues that gender and genre are inherently complicit in Atwood’s work: they converge to critique the gender-biased designs of traditional genres. This combination of gender and genre results in the recognizable Atwoodian style that shakes and extends the boundaries of conventional genres and explores them in new ways.
The book includes the first in-depth treatment of Atwood’s cartoon art as well as the first survey of her involvement with film, and concludes with an interview with Margaret Atwood on her career “From Survivalwoman to Literary Icon.”
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1: Power Politics Or, The End of Romantic Love Poetry?
2: Murder in the Dark Atwoodâs Inverse Poetics of Intertextual Minuteness in Her Short Fictions and Prose Poems
3: âUntold Stories, Fresh Beginningsâ Atwoodâs Short Stories
4: âNomenclatural Mutationsâ The Development of Forms of Address and Referencefor Female and Male Characters in Atwoodâs Novels
5: How Atwood Fared in Hollywood Atwood and Film (Esp. The Handmaidâs Tale)
6: âOn Being a Woman Writerâ Atwood as Literary and Cultural Critic
7: âSurvivalwoman, Survivalcreature, Womanwomanâ Atwood as Cartoonist
8: From Survivalwoman to Literary Icon An Interview with Margaret Atwood
List of Margaret Atwoodâs Comics
Bibliography
Index
| ISBN | 9780776618913 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780776607245 |
| DOI | 10.1353/book809 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 781535173 |
| Pages | 328 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |
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