Critical insights. The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale won international acclaim when it was first published in 1985; with it, Atwood won Canada's Governor General's Award as well as the Arthur C Clarke Award and was nominated for the Booker Prize. This title collects some the novel's best critics to introduce high school students and undergraduates.

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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale Criticism and interpretation

Dystopias in literature

Fantasy fiction, Canadian History and criticism

Man-woman relationships in literature

Misogyny in literature

Women in literature

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ISBN:

9781587656200

Description:

xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

On The handmaid's tale / J. Brooks Bouson
Biography of Margaret Atwood / Karen Carmean, Karen F. Sein, Earl of Margaret Atwood / Karen Carmean, Karen F. Sein, Earl Hoffman
Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985): cultural and historical context / Lisa Jadwin
Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: critical reception / Dominick Grace
"This is the way the world ends": Margaret Atwood and the dystopian impulse / Matthew J. Bolton
Feminism and The handmaid's tale / Jennifer E. Dunn
The handmaid's tale / Coral Ann Howells
"Trust me": reading the romance plot in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Madonne Miner
"Just a backlash": Margaret Atwood, feminism, and The handmaid's tale / Shirley Neuman
Alice in Disneyland: criticism as commodity in The handmaid's tale / Chinmoy anerjee
Selves, survival, and resistance in The handmaid's tale / Elisabeth Hansot
"We lived in the blank white space": rewriting the paradigm of denial in Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Danita J. Dodson
Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: resistance through narrating / Hilde Staels
A body in fragments: Life before man and The handmaid's tale / Eleonora Rao
Life before man and The handmaid's tale / Eleonora Rao
Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: Scheherazade in dystopia / Karen F. Stein
The handmaid's tale as Scrabble game / Joseph Andriano

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2009026309

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768393

Other Authors:

Bouson, J. Brooks
Carmean, Karen

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