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MARGARET ATWOOD'S "TRICK HIP": TRANSCENDING DUALITY WITH IMAGINATION
Title
MARGARET ATWOOD'S "TRICK HIP": TRANSCENDING DUALITY WITH IMAGINATION.
Creator
LAMB, MARTHA MOSS., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description
The major theme of Margaret Atwood's work is the transcendence of duality. Several critics, led by Cheryl Grace, have emphasized the duality only, yet there are many examples of wholeness in Atwood's early poems and novels as well as in her more recent fiction. The clearest examples of the reconciliation of opposites are in Atwood's late poems. The poetics of the romantics Blake and Coleridge, as discussed by the twentieth-century critics Northrop Frye and I. A. Richards, and underscored by...
Show moreThe major theme of Margaret Atwood's work is the transcendence of duality. Several critics, led by Cheryl Grace, have emphasized the duality only, yet there are many examples of wholeness in Atwood's early poems and novels as well as in her more recent fiction. The clearest examples of the reconciliation of opposites are in Atwood's late poems. The poetics of the romantics Blake and Coleridge, as discussed by the twentieth-century critics Northrop Frye and I. A. Richards, and underscored by new theories in physics, may be used to clarify how Atwood resolves dualities. The last five poems of "New Poems 1985-1986" from Selected Poems II demonstrate the blending of life/death, God/human, spiritual/material, body/nature, real/imaginary, male/female, subject/object into one through the use of paradox, poetic image, and remaking of myth, techniques of the imagination that Atwood shares with Blake and Coleridge.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15037
Subject Headings
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD IN THE NOVELS OF MARGARET ATWOOD
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DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD IN THE NOVELS OF MARGARET ATWOOD.
Creator
HART, SANDRA PATTERSON., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description
The five novels of Margaret Atwood contain a pattern borrowed from The Aeneid of Virgil, Aeneas , guided by the Cumaean Sibyl, descends to the underworld to gain knowledge from his father, then returns to earth, equipped to fulfill his destiny. Atwood confronts her protagonists with similar tasks. The presence of an effective guide and of a positive parental influence contribute to the completion of each quest, but the prime determiner of success is the nature of the journey itself. Seen in...
Show moreThe five novels of Margaret Atwood contain a pattern borrowed from The Aeneid of Virgil, Aeneas , guided by the Cumaean Sibyl, descends to the underworld to gain knowledge from his father, then returns to earth, equipped to fulfill his destiny. Atwood confronts her protagonists with similar tasks. The presence of an effective guide and of a positive parental influence contribute to the completion of each quest, but the prime determiner of success is the nature of the journey itself. Seen in her early novels as a source of growth and enlightenment, the journey is a vehicle of personal development and awakening. In later works, however, it becomes a snare of delusion which entraps characters in fantasy, cynicism, madness, despair and even death. Attwod unfolds a darkening vision of reality by the manipulation of various elements within the frame-work of descent and return.
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Date Issued
1983
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14167
Subject Headings
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Criticism and interpretation
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“Odd Apocalyptic Panics”: Chthonic Storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam
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“Odd Apocalyptic Panics”: Chthonic Storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.
Creator
Nugent, Ashley Frances, Mason, Julia, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
I argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming...
Show moreI argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming centuries. By bringing the two texts into dialogue, one sees that Atwood’s novel constitutes the kind of story deemed necessary by Haraway for making kin in the Chthulucene. Various scenes depicting cooperation and interdependence among humans and other animals offer chthonic models of kinship; these relationships, as opposed to ideological and anthropocentric isolation, will serve as the means of surviving and thriving within an ongoing apocalypse.
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Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013090
Subject Headings
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy., Haraway, Donna Jeanne., Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
Format
Document (PDF)
Sleeping Beauty subtext in Rosario Ferre's "La bella durmiente" and Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg"
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The Sleeping Beauty subtext in Rosario Ferre's "La bella durmiente" and Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg".
Creator
Smith, Bonnie Lynne., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description
The well-known Grimms' fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" forms the subtext of two recent literary works, Rosario Ferre's novella "La bella durmiente" (1976) and Margaret Atwood's short story "Bluebeard's Egg" (1983). Both contemporary authors suggest that certain negative aspects inherent in the Sleeping Beauty paradigm should not persist in women's literature, unless the texts lead to transformation and self-realization of the heroines. This study demonstrates how the authors expose the fallacy...
Show moreThe well-known Grimms' fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" forms the subtext of two recent literary works, Rosario Ferre's novella "La bella durmiente" (1976) and Margaret Atwood's short story "Bluebeard's Egg" (1983). Both contemporary authors suggest that certain negative aspects inherent in the Sleeping Beauty paradigm should not persist in women's literature, unless the texts lead to transformation and self-realization of the heroines. This study demonstrates how the authors expose the fallacy in the paradigm, depart from it, and refigure it by transforming their heroines into characters quite distinct from the Grimm prototype. This study also suggests that Ferre's and Atwood's works serve as prototypes for feminine texts. As the characters distance themselves from hegemonic patriarchal traditions, each author's work is also removed from the referent of masculine literary traditions and returned to its origins, the oral tale.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15105
Subject Headings
Ferré, Rosario--Criticism and interpretation, Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Criticism and interpretation, Ferré, Rosario--Bella durmiente, Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Bluebeard's egg, Fairy tales--History and criticism, Sleeping Beauty (Tale)--Adaptations, Women in literature
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Document (PDF)
Living Capital: Situating Animals within Capitalist Modes of Production in Science Fiction
Title
Living Capital: Situating Animals within Capitalist Modes of Production in Science Fiction.
Creator
Cervone, Skye, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within...
Show moreThis study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within capitalist systems, suggesting an inherently exploitative relationship between animals and biopolitical capitalism.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013364
Subject Headings
Animals, Capitalism, Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy, Quitely, Frank, 1968-, Dick, Philip K Do androids dream of electric sheep?, Science fiction
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Reconfiguring the classic narrative of pulp fiction
Title
Reconfiguring the classic narrative of pulp fiction.
Creator
Gray, Alexandria S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This project considers four writers that have used postmodern narrative strategies to reconfigure classic pulp science fiction tropes. The primary texts are Catherine L. Moore's "Shambleau," Eleanor Arnason's "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons", Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones", and Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin". Each experiments with narrative voices or uses a story-within-a-story structure. These strategies enable the authors to engage and comment on the process of how...
Show moreThis project considers four writers that have used postmodern narrative strategies to reconfigure classic pulp science fiction tropes. The primary texts are Catherine L. Moore's "Shambleau," Eleanor Arnason's "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons", Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones", and Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin". Each experiments with narrative voices or uses a story-within-a-story structure. These strategies enable the authors to engage and comment on the process of how traditional tropes and narratives are brought into a new context through appropriation and reconstruction.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332251
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Pulp literature, Criticism and interpretation, Popular literature, Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature), Feminism and literature
Format
Document (PDF)