| Description |
xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical insights.
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Table of contents -- On The handmaid's tale -- Biography of Margaret Atwood -- The Paris review perspective -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985): cultural and historical context -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: critical reception -- "This is the way the world ends": Margaret Atwood and the dystopian impulse -- Feminism and The handmaid's tale -- The handmaid's tale -- "Trust me": reading the romance plot in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- "Just a backlash": Margaret Atwood, feminism, and The handmaid's tale -- Alice in Disneyland: criticism as commodity in The handmaid's tale -- Selves, survival, and resistance in The handmaid's tale -- "We lived in the blank white space": rewriting the paradigm of denial in Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: resistance through narrating -- A body in fragments: Life before man and The handmaid's tale -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: Scheherazade in dystopia --The handmaid's tale as Scrabble game. |
| Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.
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Fantasy fiction, Canadian -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bouson, J. Brooks.
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| ISBN |
9781587656200 |
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1587656205 |
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