Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  1676. ______. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Resistance through Narrating.” English Studies 76.5 (1 September 1995): 455-467.

  1677. STAINES, David. Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century’s End. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Includes remarks on Atwood, most notably, on The Handmaid’s Tale, 61-62.

  1678. STOSKY, Sandra. “Changes in America’s Secondary School Literature Programs.” Phi Delta Kappa 76.8 (April 1995): 605ff. How world authors, including Atwood, are now studied as part of “American” literature.

  1679. TAYLOR, Judith. “Persephone.” Poetry 165.6 (March 1995): 321. Poem includes a reference to Margaret Atwood.

  1680. UNES, Diana L. “A New Sense of Time in Female Development: Linearity and Cyclicity in Atwood’s Surfacing and Cat’s Eye.” MA thesis. Eastern Illinois University, 1995. 55 pp.

  1681. VERWAAYEN, Kimberly. “Re-Examining the Gaze in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Open Letter 9.4 (Fall 1995): 44-54.

  1682. VESPERMANN, Susanne. Margaret Atwood: Eine mythokritische Analyse ihrer Werke. Augsburg, Germany: Bernd Wissner, 1995.

  1683. VIPOND, Dianne. “The Body Politic in Margaret Atwood’s ‘True Trash.’” Short Story 3.1 (Spring 1995): 84-92.

  1684. WAGNER, Monika. “The Other in Atwood: Maternity and Multiplicity in The Robber Bride and Cat’s Eye.” MS thesis. Monash University, 1995.

  1685. WAGNER-MARTIN, Linda. “‘Giving Way to Bedrock’: Atwood’s Later Poems.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 71-88.

  1686. WALKER, Nancy A. The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Study of writers, including Atwood, who revise classic texts in order to highlight classist, racist, or antifeminist messages.

  1687. WEIN, Toni. “Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 25.2 (March 1995): 2-3. Re: The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1688. WEINSTEIN, Sheri M. “Heavy with the Unspoken: The Interplay of Absence and Presence in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” MA thesis. McGill University, 1995. 148 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1996). “This study explores the philosophical, linguistic and textual interplay of absence and presence in Margaret Atwood’s novel Cat’s Eye. The premise of the thesis is that the novel posits language as a problematic communicative medium; as such, language conveys that meanings of words are flexible, mutable and transient….This study concludes that absence/presence is a paradigm in Cat’s Eye for the way in which words are (alternately as well as simultaneously) spoken and silent, understood and misunderstood, opposed and united.” (Author). For more see MAI 34.05 (October 1996): 1765.

  1689. WILLARD, Thomas. “Life Before Man.” Masterplots II: Women’s Literature. Ed. Frank McGill. Salem, CA: Salem Press, 1995. 1290-1294.

  1690. ______. “Margaret Atwood.” Great Lives from History: American Women. Ed. Frank McGill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1995. 108-112.

  1691. WILLMOTT, Glenn. “O Say, Can You See: The Handmaid’s Tale in Novel and Film.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 167-190.

  1692. YORK, Lorraine M. “‘Over All I Place a Glass Bell’: The Meta-Iconography of Margaret Atwood.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 229-252.

  1693. YORK, Lorraine M., ed. Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. Individual chapters indexed in this section.

  1694. ZAMAN, Sobia. “The Feminist Appropriation of Dystopia: A Study of Atwood, Elgin, Fairbairns, and Tepper.” MA thesis. University of Manitoba, 1995. 97 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1997). “The feminist dystopia is a distinct generic category from the dystopia—a genre still defined by reference to a male lineage….I approach these texts [Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Suzette Elgin’s Native Tongue, Zoe Fairbairns’s Benefits, and Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country], from a feminist multidisciplinary stance. My thesis concludes with the assertion that the feminist dystopia is an ultimately empowering mode of discourse for the female writer in that it allows her to appropriate the three traditionally male roles of politician, prophet, and science fiction writer.” (Author). For more see MAI 35.05 (October 1997): 1149.

  1695. ZEUGE, Paula. “Beyond the Technologized Body: Body Imagery in the Poetry of Denise Levertov and Margaret Atwood since 1960.” PhD thesis. Salve Regina University, 1995. 308 pp. “This study offers a new reading of the body imagery used by Denise Levertov and Margaret Atwood over the last thirty years. Their poetry offers a vivid and sensitive record of the powerful emotional issues that characterize these tumultuous decades. During this period, these two poets specifically rebel against what they perceive as a concept of women’s bodies imposed upon them by an expanding and standardizing technology. Changes in their body imagery are examined along with relevant commentary from the writings of such thinkers as Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Peter Russell, and Frit-jof Capra.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 56.08 (February 1996): 3132.

  1696. ZIMMERMAN, Barbara. “Shadow Play: Zenia, the Archetypal Feminine Shadow in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” Pleiades 15.2 (1995): 70-82.

  1697. ZORZI, Rosella Mamoli. “On Translating Margaret Atwood into Italian: A Few Practical Considerations.” Rivista di studi canadesi 8 (1995): 97-100.

  1698. ZUPANCIC, Metka. “Feministicna proza: Miti in utopija: Margaret Atwood, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Madeleine Monette, Monique Larue, Berta Bojetu.” Primerjalna Knjizevnost (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 18.2 (1995): 1-16. Feminist fiction (Canadian, French-Canadian, Slovenian).

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  1699. Bones and Murder. London: Virago, 1995.

  Sunday Times 15 October 1995: Section: Features. By Pam BARRETT.

  1700. Cat’s Eye. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Caruso. s.l.: Recorded Books, 1995.

  Library Journal 120.10 (1 June 1995): 190(1). By Nan Blaine LYARD.

  1701. Good Bones and Small Murders. New York: Doubleday, 1994. Also published as Good Bones & Simple Murders (Rockland, MA: Wheeler, 1995).

  Atlanta Constitution and Journal 29 January 1995: Section: Arts: N10. By Diane ROBERTS. (210 w).

  Atlantic Monthly 275.1 (January 1995): 109. By Phoebe-Lou ADAMS. (105 w).

  Chicago Sun-Times 15 January 1995: Section: Show: 20. Originally published in the Washington Post 8 January 1995: Section: Book World: X3. By Ursula K. Le GUIN. (627 w).

  Los Angeles Times 19 February 1995: Section: Book Review: 6. By Dick RORABACK. (270 w).

  Morning Call (Allentown, PA) 12 February 1995: Section: Arts & Travel: F3. By Nicholas BASBANES. (819 w).

  Palm Beach Post 26 March 1995: Section: Arts and Entertainment: 6j. By Ellen KANNER. (415 w).

  Roanoke Times & World News 12 February 1995: Section: Metro and Book: F6. By Mary Ann JOHNSON. (238 w).

  Seattle Times 2 January 1995: Section: Books: M2. ANON. (217 w).

  Virginia-Pilot (Norfolk) 4 January 1995: Section: Daily Break: E5. By Laura LAFAY. (471 w).

  Washington Post 8 January 1995: WBK3. By Ursula K. Le GUIN.

  Washington Times 12 February 1995: Section: Part B, Books and Short Fiction: B6. By Mark BAUTZ. (1081 w).

  1702. La voleuse d’hommes. Paris: R. Laffont, 1994. [The Robber Bride]

  Actualité 20.391 (March 1995): 98. De Gilles MARCOTTE.

  Châtelaine (Fr.) 36.2 (February 1995): 20. ANON.

  Spirale 139 (February 1995): 16. ANON.

  1703. Morning in the Burned House. London: Virago, 1995. Also published by Hough-ton Mifflin in the United States.

  Booklist 92.1 (1 September 1995): 32. By Ray OLSON.

  Books in Canada 24.2 (March 1995): 29-31. By Charlene DIEHL-JONES. (Includes brief interview).

  Border Crossing
s 14.2 (Spring 1995): 58-60.

  Calgary Herald 25 March 1995: C18. By Lorri NEILSEN. (497 w).

  Catholic New Times 19.20. (19 November 1995): Supplement 1,3. ANON.

  Economist 335.7918 (19 June 1995): 80. ANON. (387 w).

  Financial Post 89.4 (28 January 1995): 28. ANON.

  Globe and Mail 30 January 1995: C1. ANON.

  Halifax Chronicle Herald 2 June 1995: C2. ANON.

  Irish Times 8 July 1995: Section: Weekend Supplement: Paperback Choice: 9. By Arminta WALLACE. (174 w).

  Library Journal 120.14 (1 September 1995): 181. By C. STENSTROM.

  Maclean’s 108.6 (6 February 1995): 85(1). By John BEMROSE. (849 w).

  Miami Herald 24 December 1995: Section I:3 C:3. By Peter SCHMITT.

  Montréal Gazette 21 January 1995: 11. By Mark ABLEY. (991 w).

  Ottawa Citizen 22 January 1995: Section: Books: B3. By Colin MORTON. (833 w).

  Poetry Review 85.3 (Fall 1995): 14. By M. ROBERTS.

  Publisher’s Weekly 242.35 (28 August 1995): 107. By Dulcy BRAINARD. (182 w).

  Quill & Quire 61.2 (February 1995): 25. ANON.

  Sunday Telegraph 25 June 1995: Section: Books: 10. By Verson SCANNELL. (212 w).

  The Times 6 July 1995: Section: Features: By Rachael CAMPBELL-JOHNSON. (472 w).

  Winnipeg Free Press 19 February 1995: D5.

  1704. New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1995.

  Books in Canada 24.9 (December 1995): 26-27. By Bruce MEYER.

  Toronto Star 16 December 1995: L4. By Philip MARCHAND. (859 w).

  1705. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993-1994. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan.

  University of Toronto Quarterly 65.1 (Winter 1995): 75-76. By Rita TREGEBOV.

  1706. Politique de pouvoir. Montréal: L’Hexagone, 1995. Translated by Louise Desjar-dins.

  University of Toronto Quarterly 65.1 (Winter 1995): 129. By Jane KOUSTAS.

  1707. Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1995.

  Atlanta Journal and Constitution 3 December 1995 Section: Arts: 11L. By Elizabeth WARD.

  Austin American-Statesman 10 November 1995: Section: Lifestyle: F2. ANON.

  Booklist 92.8 (15 December 1995): 702. By Hazel ROCHMAN.

  Books in Canada 24.9 (December 1995): 20.

  Calgary Herald 28 December 1995: N1. By Joan CRAVEN. (165 w).

  Des Moines Register 10 December 1995: Section: Opinion: 4. By Anita LARSEN.

  Globe and Mail 14 October 1995: E20. ANON.

  Los Angeles Times 3 December 1995: BR27. By Suzy SCHMIDT.

  Maclean’s 11 December 1995: 52. By Patricia HLUCHY and Diane TURBIDE.

  Ottawa Citizen 11 November 1995: J5. ANON. (156 w).

  People 44.25 (18 December 1995): 29(1). ANON.

  Quill & Quire 61.9 (September 1995): 73. ANON.

  Times Educational Supplement 4145 (8 December 1995): SS12. ANON.

  Times Union (Albany, NY) 5 December 1995: Section: Life & Leisure: C1. By Nancy PATE. Also in Orlando Sentinel 26 November 1995: Section: Arts & Entertainment: F1.

  Toronto Star 7 October 1995: PJ20. By Arlene Perly RAE. (170 w).

  Vancouver Sun 2 December 1995: C9. By Patrick TRICKETT, a Grade 3 student. (141 w).

  1708. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993.

  American Studies International 33.2 (October 1995): 1-16. By M. PAGE.

  Americas 47.5 (19 September 1995): 60. By Barbara MUJICA. (878 w).

  Canadian Literature 147 (Winter 1995): 157-159. By Aritha VAN HERK.

  Catholic New Times 19.20 (19 November 1995): 1, 3.

  Chicago Tribune 5 March 1995: Section: Tribune Books: 8. ANON. (197 w).

  Cosmopolitan 218.3 (March 1995): 28. By Chris CHASE

  Entertainment Weekly 267 (24 March 1995): 60(1). ANON. (51 w).

  Houston Chronicle 5 March 1995: Section: Zest: 21. ANON. (63 w).

  International Fiction Review 22.1-2 (1995): 114-116. By N. F. STOVEL.

  New York Times 26 February 1995: Section 7:28 C:1 By Laurel GRAEBER. (84 w).

  Orlando Sentinel 19 February 1995: Section: Arts & Entertainment: F12. By Nancy PATE. (139 w).

  1709. The Robber Bride. Audiobook. Read by Blythe Danner.

  Booklist 91.10 (15 January 1995): 946. By Candace SMITH.

  1710. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

  Booklist 92.3 (1 October 1995): 245. By Ray OLSON.

  Books in Canada 24.8 (November 1995): 48. By Scott ELLIS.

  Ottawa Citizen 31 December 1995: Section: Book: B3. By Joy GUGELER. (792 w).

  Quill & Quire 61.10 (October 1995): 31. ANON.

  Winnipeg Free Press 26 November 1995: D6. ANON.

  Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  1711. Good Bones. Adapted for the stage and directed by Neta Gordon. At Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, Toronto.

  Toronto Star 2 September 1995: D12. By Robert CREW.

  1712. The Robber Bride. CBC Radio Adaptation.

  Toronto Star 3 September 1995: B5. By Sid ADILMAN.

  ~ 1996 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  1713. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Doubleday; London: Bloomsbury, 1996. 470 pp. Novel. Set in 19th-century Canada, Alias Grace is partly presented by a first-person narrator who is a woman convicted of having murdered her employer. Grace Mark’s narrative is evasive and unreliable concerning her involvement in the crime.

  1714. Alias Grace. Amsterdam: B. Bakker, 1996. Dutch translation by Gerda Baardman and Tjadine Stheeman.

  1715. Alias Grace. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1996. 622. German translation by Brigitte Walitzek.

  1716. Alias Grace. [Sound recording]. Read by Elizabeth McGovern. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books-Audio, 1996. 4 cassettes. Abridged.

  1717. Alias Grace. [Videorecording]. New York: Doubleday, 1996. A Doubleday Book Club video to be used in connection with a book study. 20 min. Order from Dou-bleday Marketing, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10035.

  1718. “Ava Gardner Reincarnated as a Magnolia.” The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures. Ed. Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 318-320.

  1719. Bluebeard’s Egg. Toronto: McClelland-Bantam; New York: Bantam Books, 1996. Paperback reissue of 1983 McClelland and Stewart cloth edition.

  1720. Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories. London: Vintage Books, 1996. Includes “Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother,” “Hurricane Hazel,” “Loulou; Or, The Domestic Life of the Language,” “Uglypuss,” “Two Stories about Emma: The Whirlpool Rapids, Walking on Water,” “Bluebeard’s Egg,” “Spring Song of the Frogs,” “Scarlet Ibis,” “The Salt Garden,” “In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain,” “The Sunrise,” “Unearthing Suite.”

  1721. “Boat.” Unmuzzled Ox 14.1-4 (1996): 20-21. Poem.

  1722. Bodily Harm. New York: Bantam Books; London: Vintage, 1996. Originally published in London by Jonathan Cape, 1982.

  1723. “The Case of Wei Jingsheng.” New York Review of Books 43.3 (15 February 1996): 41-42. Atwood, with several other authors, demands release of Chinese human-rights activist by his government.

  1724. Cat’s Eye. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publications, 1996.

  1725. Cat’s Eye. Madison, WI: Demco Media, 1996.

  1726. Dancing Girls and Other Stories. New York: Bantam Books; London: Vintage, 1996 ©1982.

  1727. “Daphne and Laura and So Forth.” The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. 9th annual collection. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. 367-368. Poem. Reprinted from Morning in the Burned House, ©1995.

  1728. “Death by Landscape.” The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories. Ed. Joseph Bristow. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. 385-400. Reprinted from Wilderness Tips, ©1991.

  1729. Death by Landscape. Bredbury, UK: National Library for the Blind, 1996. Br
aille ed., 2 v. Short story.

  1730. Der Report der Magd. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996 ©1987. German translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Helga Pfetsch.

  1731. Die Räuberbraut: Roman. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1996 ©1994. German translation of The Robber Bride by Brigitte Walitzek.

  1732. Doña oráculo. Barcelona: Muchnik Editores, 1996. Spanish translation of Lady Oracle by Sofía Carlota Noguera.

  1733. The Edible Woman. New York: Bantam Books, 1996 ©1970.

  1734. Ein Morgen im verbrannten Haus: Gedichte. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1996. German translation of Morning in the Burned House by Beatrice Howeg.

  1735. En he-hatul. Tel-Aviv: Kineret, 1996. Hebrew translation of Cat’s Eye by Shelomit Avi’asaf.

  1736. [Excerpts]. The Penguin Book of Women’s Humor. Introduction and ed. Regina Barreca. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1996. 34-37. Includes excerpts from “Their Attitudes Differ,” “She Considers Evading Him,” and “They Eat Out” (from Power Politics); “Aging Female Poet Sits on the Balcony” (from Selected Poems II 1976-1986); “Letters, Towards and Away” (from The Circle Game and from Lady Oracle).

  1737. “Extract from Cat’s Eye.” When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories. Selected and ed. Stuart McLean. Toronto; New York; London: Penguin, 1996. 97-116. Eight-year-old Elaine describes her first year at her new school.

  1738. “[Favourite Books of 1996].” Maclean’s 30 December 1996: 15. “I really enjoyed Matt Cohen’s novel Last Seen. It’s a breakthrough book for him, and it’s concerned with the bizarre and sometimes hilarious effects of grief….Dorothy Speak’s Object of Your Love is a very accomplished book of short stories. They’re straight-from-the-shoulder tales about passion gone wildly astray.…Joan Didion’s The Last Thing He Wanted is hard to describe because it’s so offbeat. It reflects every paranoid nightmare that you’ve ever had about clandestine operations of government. Part spy thriller, part romance, it’s a deft and gripping story from a very classy writer.”

  1739. “The Female Body.” Fireweed 56 (December 1996): 22-24.

  1740. “Hairball.” The Penguin Book of International Women’s Stories. Selected and with an introduction by Kate Figes. New York: Viking, 1996. 260-273. Reprinted from Wilderness Tips, ©1991.