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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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by Coral Ann Howells
Sales Rank : 299556
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Paperback: 222 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition April 17, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521548519
ISBN-13: 978-0521548519
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
Product Review
"A masterful account of Atwood's life and career." -- Choice
"It is an enlightening and pleasurable experience to immerse oneself into this new and timely collection on Canada's 'Queen of Letters.'"
-Susanne Becker, The Review of English Studies
"An example of sound, well-informed and well-written scholarship that consolidates the achievements of several decades of Atwood criticism"
-Pilar Cuder Dominguez, Atlantis: A Journal of the Spanish Organization for Anglo-American Studies
"The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood boasts an impressive array of essays by international Atwood scholars. The sense of Atwood that emergesis of a writer who enacts Canadianness in an increasingly global world and who is committed to questioning the use and abuse of power on a variety of levels"
-Laura M. Robinson, Canadian Literature
"Coral Ann Howell's book is exactly what its title suggests: a companion. Neither handmaiden, following far behind the writer and her critics with overly respectful steps, nor master, leading the way and forcing the writer and her works into pigeonholes and places they should not be. Rather, a companion - of sound and agile mind as well as of engaging demeanor, able to keep pace alongside and offer lively conversation and insights along the way."
-Nathalie Cooke, McGill University, University of Toronto Quarterly
Product Description
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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