The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521839661 ISBN 13: 9780521839662

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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Book Description

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity as a writer, cultural critic, and media star has given new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion, with essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics, provides the most comprehensive and up to date account of Atwood's novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

About the Author

Coral Ann Howells is Professor of English and Canadian Literature at the University of Reading. Her books include Private and Fictional Words, Margaret Atwood (winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Award in 1997), Alice Munro, and Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities. She is co-editor of Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter and editor of Where are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History. She is former President of the British Association of Canadian Studies and has been associate editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies. She has lectured extensively on Margaret Atwood and Canadian women's fiction in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, USA, and India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521839661
• ISBN 13: 9780521839662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Howells Coral Ann