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- MARGARET ATWOOD'S "TRICK HIP": TRANSCENDING DUALITY WITH IMAGINATION.
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- LAMB, MARTHA MOSS., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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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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- 1994
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15037
- Subject Headings
- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
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- DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD IN THE NOVELS OF MARGARET ATWOOD.
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- HART, SANDRA PATTERSON., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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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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- 1983
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- 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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- Nugent, Ashley Frances, Mason, Julia, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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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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- 2018
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013090
- Subject Headings
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy., Haraway, Donna Jeanne., Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
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- The Sleeping Beauty subtext in Rosario Ferre's "La bella durmiente" and Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg".
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- Smith, Bonnie Lynne., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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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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- 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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