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Overview
Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. Her success, however, has been double-edged: the very popularity that makes her such a prominent figure in the literary world also renders her vulnerable to claims of being a "sell-out," as she relates in her Empson lectures. The Open Eye negotiates the space between these positions, acknowledging Atwood's remarkable achievement while considering how it impacts on national politics and identity.
The range of perspectives in this volume is stimulating and enlightening. The Open Eye begins with a focus on Atwood as she presents herself and is presented in Canada and abroad, and then proceeds to consider, more broadly, the intersection of life and literature that Atwood's works and persona effect. It offers fresh insight into Atwood's early writing, redresses the critical void regarding her poetry and shorter prose pieces, and provides a critical base from which readers can assess Atwood's most recent novels.
A common thread throughout these essays is the recognition of Atwood's importance in the literary realm in general, and in Canadian literature more particularly.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780776608440 |
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Publisher: | University of Ottawa Press |
Publication date: | 10/28/2006 |
Series: | Reappraisals: Canadian Writers |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 496 |
File size: | 877 KB |
About the Author
John Moss is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. His publications include Being Fiction, Invisible Among the Ruins, and Paradox of Meaning.
Tobi Kozakewich is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include articles on textual editing and the culture of sensibility. She is presently writing her thesis, which is a literary historical analysis of representations of adultery in twentieth-century English-Canadian prose fiction. Her work on Margaret Atwood is part of this larger project.
John Moss is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. His publications include Being Fiction, Invisible Among the Ruins, and Paradox of Meaning.
Tobi Kozakewich is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include articles on textual editing and the culture of sensibility. She is presently writing her thesis, which is a literary historical analysis of representations of adultery in twentieth-century English-Canadian prose fiction. Her work on Margaret Atwood is part of this larger project.
Table of Contents
Contributors xi
Abbreviated Titles xix
Haunting Ourselves in Her Words John Moss 1
Open Eyes: An Introduction Tobi Kozakewich 9
Subject/Object
Margaret Atwood: Branding an Icon Abroad Laura Moss 19
"A Slightly Uneasy Eminence": The Celebrity of Margaret Atwood Lorraine York 35
Eyes Wide Shut: Atwood, Bill C-32, and the Rights of the Author Renee Hulan 49
"Les talents de la voisine": Margaret Atwood and Quebec Eva-Marie Kroller 65
P.K. Page and Margaret Atwood: Continuity in Canadian Writing Sandra Djwa 81
Negotiations with the Living Archive Robert McGill 95
Writing History, from The Journals of Susanna Moodie to The Blind Assassin Coral Ann Howells 107
Atwood and the "Autobiographical Pact"-for Reingard Nischik Sherrill Grace 121
Earlier Novels
"Saying Boo to Colonialism": Surfacing, Tom Thomson, and the National Ghost Cynthia Sugars 137
A Silhouette of Madness: Reading Atwood's Surfacing Tina Trigg 159
"It looked at me with its mashed eye": Animal and Human Suffering in Surfacing Janice Fiamengo 171
Having It Both Ways? Romance, Realism, and Irony in Lady Oracle's Adulterous Affairs Tobi Kozakewich 185
How Can a Feminist Read The Handmaid's Tale? A Study of Offred's Narrative Tae Yamamoto 195
"Lurid Yet Muted": Narrative and the Sabotage of Dissident Voice in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Julie Godin 207
A Contemporary Psychologist Looks at Atwood's Construction of Personality in Alias Grace Regina M. Edmonds 217
Atwood and Class: Lady Oracle, Cat's Eye, and Alias Grace Frank Davey 231
Short Fiction and Poetry
Funny Bones Are Good Bones: Atwood and Humour Wanda Campbell 243
"Back from the Dead": Journeys to the Underworld in Wilderness Tips Pamela S. Bromberg 257
"It's still you": Aging and Identity in Atwood's Poetry Sara Jamieson 269
"Com[ing] Through Darkness": Margaret Atwood's "I"-Opening Lyricism David R. Jarraway 279
Power Politics/Power Politics: Atwood and Foucault Pilar Somacarrera 291
The Two-Headed Opus Christine Evain 305
Incandescence: "the power of what is not there" in Margaret Atwood's Morning in the Burned House Rose Lucas 319
Eye-Openers: Photography in Margaret Atwood's Poetry Reingard M. Nischik Julia Breitbach 331
The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake
Negotiating with the Looking Glass: Atwood, Her Protagonists, and the Journey to the Dead Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis 349
The Body of/as Evidence: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, and the Feminist Literary Mystery Wendy Roy 361
The Dead Are in the Hands of the Living: Memory Haunting Storytelling in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin Helena Hyttinen 373
Margaret Atwood and the Critical Limits of Embodiment Sally Chivers 385
Frankenstein's Gaze and Atwood's Sexual Politics in Oryx and Crake Sharon R. Wilson 397
The Representation of the Absent Mother in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Nathalie Foy 407
Resistance in Futility: The Cyborg Identities of Oryx and Crake Michele Lacombe 421
Oryx and Crake: Atwood's Ironic Inversion of Frankenstein Hilde Staels 433
Atwood's Global Ethic: The Open Eye, The Blinded Eye Diana Brydon 447
Postscript
Propositions from a (Reap)praising Margaret Atwood Conference Frank Davey 461
Index 465