This is a collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts. In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpieces - "The Robber Bride", "The Blind Assassin", and "Oryx and Crake". Providing new critical assessments of Atwood's novels in language that is both lively and accessible, Margaret Atwood reveals not only Atwood's ongoing and evolving engagement with the issues that have long preoccupied her - ranging from the power politics of human relationships to a concern with human rights and the global environment - but also her increasing formal complexity as a novelist. If Atwood is a novelist who is part trickster, illusionist and con-artist, as she has often described herself, she is also, as the essays in this critical collection show, an author-ethicist with a finely honed sense of moral responsibility. This series offers up-to-date guides to the recent work of major contemporary North American authors. Written by leading scholars in the field, each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts published since 1990, showing how the same novel may be interpreted in a number of different ways. These informative, accessible volumes will appeal to advance undergraduate and postgraduate students, facilitating discussion and supporting close analysis of the most important contemporary American and Canadian fiction.

Collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.

About the Author
J. Brooks Bouson is a Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA.

Reviews
We welcome this new collection of essays on Margaret Atwood's later novels, the first to include a substantial section on Oryx and Crake. J.Brooks Bouson has assembled an international team of major Atwood scholars who show us fascinating new ways of understanding Atwood's fiction by highlighting features which range from magic realism to environmentalism and debt, trauma narratives, and her apocalyptic imagination. The critical inventiveness of these essays matches Atwood's own irrepressibly creative storytelling. -- Coral Ann Howells, Professor Emerita, University of Reading, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (CUP, 2009)
... readers should appreciate the series' clear purpose and excellent essays. The series is a welcome addition to scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction group review in CHOICE
This volume, like the author it discusses, teaches and delights while contributing to Atwood scholarship. * Canadian Literature # 210-211 *
Bouson's collection, comprised of articles by well-known Atwood scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, is sure to be of welcome help for both students and faculty hoping to develop a well-roundedunderstanding of the author and texts... Rather than limiting itself to a thematic study of the novels, Bouson's volume finds its strength in the variety of foci among the nine individual chapters, which includes Atwood's adaptations of many literary genres and narrative techniques as well as such sociocultural issues as female victimization and environmental destruction. At the same time, the collection successfully foregrounds concerns that are central to Atwood's fiction, such as women's relationships to each other, to feminism, and to literary traditions, resulting in a well-balanced overview of the author's work and the scholarship on it. -- Tomoko Kuribayashi, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point * Contemporary Women's Writing *



Book Information
ISBN 9780826430625
Author Professor J. Brooks Bouson
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 286g