Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity New Critical Essays
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Also by Colin Nicholson POEM, PURPOSE, PLACE: Shaping Identity in Contemporary Scottish Verse ALEXANDER POPE: Essays for the Tercentenary (editor) CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE FICTION OF MARGARET LAURENCE (editor) IAN CRICHTON SMITH: New Critical Essays (editor)
Margaret Atwood photo credit: Graeme Gibson
Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity New Critical Essays Edited by
Colin Nicholson Senior Lecturer in English University of Edinburgh
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St. Martin's Press
Editorial material and selection © Colin Nicholson 1994 Text © The Macmillan Press Ltd 1994 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published in Great Britain 1994 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-61181-4 ISBN 978-1-349-23282-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-23282-6
First published in the United States of America 1994 by Scholarly and Reference Division, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-10644-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Margaret Atwood : writing and subjectivity I edited by Colin Nicholson. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-10644-7 1. Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- --Criticism and interpretation. 2. Subjectivity in literature. I. Nicholson, Colin. PR9199.3.A8Z77 1994 818'.5409--dc20 93-{;300 CIP
Contents Frontispiece Margaret Atwood
Acknowledgements
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Notes on the Contributors
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Introduction Colin Nicholson 1 Living on the Edges: Constructions of Post-Colonial Subjectivity in Atwood's Early Poetry
Colin Nicholson
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From 'Places, Migrations' to The Circle Game: Atwood's Canadian and Female Metamorphoses Judith McCombs
51
3
Nearer by Far: The Upset 'I' in Margaret Atwood's Poetry Dennis Cooley
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Surfacing: Separation, Transition, Incorporation David Ward
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Margaret Atwood's Surfacing: Strange Familiarity Peter Quartermaine
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Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: Writing against Notions of Unity Eleonora Rao
7
Hope against Hopelessness: Margaret Atwood's
Life Before Man Janice Kulyk Keefer
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Contents
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Versions of History: The Handmaid's Tale and its Dedicatees Mark Evans
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Gender as Genre: Atwood's Autobiographical'!' Sherrill Grace
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10 Cat's Eye: Elaine Risley's Retrospective Art
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Gender and Narrative Perspective in Margaret Atwood's Stories
