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From:Feminist WritersMargaret Atwood, a varied and prolific writer, has been recognized for her terse, evocative and intellectually probing poetry and dazzling comic invention in fiction. One of Canada's major contemporary authors on the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)In "This Is a Photograph of Me," the opening poem of Margaret Atwood's The Circle Game, the speaker proffers the reader a grainy snapshot. After momentary confusion, the photo resolves itself into a recognizable scene:...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersMargaret Eleanor Atwood is one of the most prominent writers in Canada. Born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, she spent many summers in the northern Ontario and Quebec bush where her father, Dr. Carl Edmund Atwood,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 250) Peer-ReviewedMargaret Atwood is, without a doubt, the most recognizable author in Canada and the best-known living Canadian writer abroad. In 2019, as she launched The Testaments in a lavish event held at midnight at one of the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Larson discusses Atwood as a “wry wise-woman and a modern seer in the line of William Blake” who is also capable of making the future possible “by helping us remember the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In interviews, Margaret Atwood has often commented that when she started writing in the late 1950s and early 1960s, "Canadian literature" was considered a contradiction in terms. Arguably, as a novelist, poet, critic,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn a 1999 testimonial, a woman reported that under the influence of ayahuasca, or yaje, a hallucinogenic mixture of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and Psychotria viridis leaf native to central South America, she perceived...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersMargaret Atwood is best known for the Canadian nationalism and feminism that characterize her works. As controversial as she is versatile, however, she modifies both her national pride and her feminist sensibilities with...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)In her characteristically direct and acerbic way, Margaret Atwood once noted that ``The woman writer ... exists in a society that, though it may turn certain individual writers into revered cult objects, has little...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSDouble Persephone (Toronto: Hawkshead, 1961).The Circle Game (Toronto: Contact, 1966).The Animals in That Country (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968; Boston: Little, Brown, 1969).The...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood[(essay date 2007) Thomas's book Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood, from which the following essay is drawn, forms part of a series of books entitled Confronting the Text, Confronting the World, designed to...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn a 2009 interview with Sarah Crown in the Guardian newspaper, the novelist Penelope Lively remarked that "in old age you can close your eyes and summon your youth at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureAtwood, Margaret (Eleanor) (b. Nov. 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ont., Can.) Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, noted for her Canadian nationalism and her feminism. Atwood attended the University of Toronto (B.A., 1961)...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: University of Toronto Quarterly[(essay date summer 2006) In the following essay, Elliott traces the importance of music as both a means of expression and a cultural reference in Atwood's career, underscoring her work as a librettist and her lyrical...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Maxwell examines a sampling of Atwood’s poems “to characterise what I call a sustained apocalyptic vision in Atwood’s body of poetry” which contains several forms of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI When Lady Oracle Joan Foster was a fat little girl, she seemed a "huge edgeless cloud of inchoate matter which refused to be shaped into anything." The body of Margaret Atwood's work, too, large and recalcitrant,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Hönnighausen offers an overview of Atwood’s poetic works, examining themes of love, language, and parody in her verse. Quoted material in this essay has been removed due to...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Dialogic Self: Reconstructing Subjectivity in Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Fand argues that “Atwood’s definition of self as located or situated in a context seems to fit in with her activism as a Canadian nationalist.” For Atwood “the self is a place...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: A Studio of One’s Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, White contends that Atwood consciously contradicted the nature of Canadian literature, which had been rife with stories of survival, breaking free of a grim past, to write...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEste artículo se centra en la novela de ficción climática MaddAddam (2013), de Margaret Atwood, un texto distópico de advertencia en el cual la producción de comida y la alimentación se convierten en elecciones éticas...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center