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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

No abstract provided.


“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

No abstract provided.


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

No abstract provided.


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.


Excavating The Expendable Working Classes In "The Imperialist", Teresa Hubel Dec 1996

Excavating The Expendable Working Classes In "The Imperialist", Teresa Hubel

Teresa Hubel

You can’t get much more middle class than Sara Jeanette Duncan’s turn-of-the-century novel The Imperialist. Its middle-classness calls out from virtually every page and through almost every narrative technique the novelist employs from her choice of theme—the debate over imperial federation, conducted some hundred years ago primarily in elite political circles—to her setting—the social world of the commercial classes who live in a prosperous southern Ontario town (which she names Elgin but which most critics suspect is Duncans own hometown of Brantford in very thin disguise)—and finally to her protagonists, the Murchisons, whose middle-class values are proudly paraded at every …


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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