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English Language and Literature

Karen F Stein

Selected Works

Canadian Literature

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Surviving The Waterless Flood: Feminism And Ecofeminsim In Margaret Atwood’S The Handmaid’S Tale, Oryx And Crake, And The Year Of The Flood, Karen Stein Dec 2011

Surviving The Waterless Flood: Feminism And Ecofeminsim In Margaret Atwood’S The Handmaid’S Tale, Oryx And Crake, And The Year Of The Flood, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

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“Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin As A Modern Bluebeard”, Karen Stein Dec 2010

“Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin As A Modern Bluebeard”, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

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Problematic Paradice: Margaret Atwood’S Oryx And Crake, Karen Stein Dec 2009

Problematic Paradice: Margaret Atwood’S Oryx And Crake, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

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Scheherazade In Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Karen Stein Dec 2009

Scheherazade In Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

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Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin: A Left-Handed Story, Karen Stein Dec 2002

Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin: A Left-Handed Story, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

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Margaret Atwood Revisited, Karen Stein Dec 1998

Margaret Atwood Revisited, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

Fiction writer, poet, critic, cartoonist, editor, children's book author, lecturer, teacher, and activist, Margaret Atwood is a major figure in the contemporary flowering of Canadian literature. This book provides an overview of Atwood's works, focusing on central themes, especially the paradoxes and possibilities of storytelling, sexual politics, and quests. Atwood's protagonists are storytellers, witnesses to a world that is often confusing and dangerous; the fictions these characters invent about their lives can become traps, self-fulfilling prophecies, or liberating fictions.


Margaret Atwood's Modest Proposal: The Handmaid's Tale, Karen Stein Dec 1995

Margaret Atwood's Modest Proposal: The Handmaid's Tale, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

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Speaking In Tongues: Margaret Laurence's A Jest Of God As Gothic Narrative, Karen Stein Dec 1994

Speaking In Tongues: Margaret Laurence's A Jest Of God As Gothic Narrative, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God has strong affinities to Claire Kahane's analysis of the Gothic narrative tradition: these include the supernatural, sleep-like states, difficulties in telling a story, discovery of secrets, discussions of female sexuality, absent mothers, a secret room, a controlling male figure, a mysterious lover, and different narrative voices. Gothic novels also explore the position of women in the home and family. Laurence incorporates Gothic conventions but modifies them, allowing her heroine, Rachel, to find her own voice(s) and escape from the guilt, shame, and imprisonment of her past.