Margaret Atwood

Language, Text and System

Edited by Lorraine Weir
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843416, 168 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857703, 168 pages, January 1983

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Articulating the "Space Between": Atwood's Untold
Stories and Fresh Beginnings / Sherrill E. Grace

2. From Poetic to Narrative Structures: The Novels of Margaret
Atwood / Linda Hutcheon

3. The Pronunciation of Flesh: A Feminist Reading of Atwood's
Poetry / Barbara Blakely

4. Atwood's Poetic Politics / Eli Mandel

5. Surface Structures: The Syntactic Profile of Surfacing /
Robert Cluett

6. Surfacing: Amerindian Themes and Shamanism / Marie-Francoise
Guedon

7. The Uses of Ambiguity: Margaret Atwood and Hubert Aquin /
Philip Stratford

8. Metamorphosis and Survival: Notes on the Recent Poetry of
Margaret Atwood / George Woodcock

9. Atwood in a Landscape / Lorraine Weir

Contributors

Index

Description

As poet, novelist, and critic Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's
most stimulating contemporary writers. In this essay collection the
authors examine her 'system' or 'set of codes' from a
variety of critical perspectives which, considered together,
demonstrate the overall consistency of Atwood's work. The
introductory and concluding papers by the editors frame the other
essays which range from thematic, historical, comparative, and feminist
to syntactical studies of Atwood's text and language.