Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  3511. MÉNDEZ DÍAZ, Luisa Cristina. “Dos poemas, dos poetas, un encuentro: Margaret Atwood y Wislawa Szymborska.” Espéculo: Revista de Estudios Literarios 24 (July-October 2003): s.p. Available at http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo (1 May 2006). (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

  3512. MICHAEL, Magali Cornier. “Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).” Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Ed. Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, and David Sadker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 134-136.

  3513. MILLER, Tanya J. “Rewriting History: New Historical Criticism of Margaret At-wood’s Alias Grace.” MA thesis. Bemidji State University, 2003. 99 pp.

  3514. MURRAY, Jennifer. “History as Poetic Indetermination: The Murder Scene in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Études anglaises 56.3 (2003): 310-323.

  3515. NISCHIK, Reingard M. “Murder in the Dark: Margaret Atwood’s Inverse Poetics of Intertextual Minuteness.” Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 1-17. “Uses some of Atwood’s published and unpublished cartoons, including cultural implications of their dichotomy of large and small, to trace this size motif throughout Atwood’s work and approach aspects of the brevity, generic hybridity, and intertextual impact of Murder in the Dark.” from Introduction, xiii.

  3516. ÖZDEMIR, Erinç. “Power, Madness, and Gender Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: A Feminist Reading.” English Studies 84.1 (2003): 57-80.

  3517. PADOLSKY, Enoch. “‘The Old Country in Your Blood’: Italy and Canada in Frank Paci’s Black Madonna and Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle.” F. G. Paci: Essays on His Works. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Toronto; Buffalo, NY: Guernica Editions, 2003. 37-38.

  3518. POTVIN, Liza. “Voodooism and Female Quest Patterns in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” Journal of Popular Culture 36.3 (2003): 636-650.

  3519. REESE, Kelly S. “Surviving Women: A Study of Margaret Atwood’s Protagonists.” [Internet resource]. MA thesis. Central Connecticut State University, 2003. 139 pp. Access: http://www.consuls.org/record=b2646395 (1 May 2006). “At-wood argues that survival is the main theme commonly found in Canadian literature. The purpose of this thesis is to examine this theory of ‘survival’ in Margaret Atwood’s own work. Atwood states in her thematic guide to Canadian literature entitled Survival that ‘literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive’ (Survival 19). A close study of Surfacing, Cat’s Eye, Bodily Harm, and The Handmaid’s Tale proves this theory to be true.” (Author).

  3520. SHECKELS, Theodore F. The Island Motif in the Fiction of L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature; Vol. 68) See especially Chapter 7, “Dangerous Idylls: Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin Flute; Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm; Marie-Claire Blais’s These Festive Nights,” 149-180.

  3521. STAMBOVSKY, Phillip. “Mythemic Figuration and the Limits of Reason in Philosophy and Literature.” MA thesis. Boston College, 2003. 161 pp. “This study explores how modernists in philosophy and literature have used the depictive rationality of mythemic figuration to delineate, in self-reflexive ways, the limits of discursive sense-making in religious, national-cultural, psychosocial, and psycho-biological domains of experience. It illustrates four widely diverse examples of this critical species of mythical depiction in works by Sören Kierkegaard, Miguel de Unamuno, Henry James, and Margaret Atwood.” (Author). For more see MAI 42.05 (October 2004): 1499.

  3522. STANLEY, Sandra Kumanoto. “The Eroticism of Class and the Enigma of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 22.2 (2003): 371-386.

  3523. STEELE, James. “Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye: New Feminism or Old Comedy.” Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives. Ed. Jean O’Grady and Wang Ning. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 121-135.

  3524. STEIN, Karen F. “A Left-Handed Story: The Blind Assassin.” Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 135-153. “Reads Atwood’s . . . novel as a Gothic text, with the central theme of hiding and revealing.” from Introduction, xv.

  3525. ______. “Talking Back to Bluebeard: Atwood’s Fictional Storytellers.” Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 154-171. Examines how storytelling contributes to the power that Atwood’s female protagonists gain in Bluebeard’s Egg and throughout her work….” from Introduction, xv.

  3526. SZALAY, Edina. “Quilting Her Story: The Resisting Female Subject in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 9.1 (2003): 173-180.

  3527. TENNANT, Colette. Reading the Gothic in the First Seven Novels of Margaret Atwood. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2003. (Studies in Comparative Literature; Vol. 55). “This study contains a thorough reading of Margaret Atwood’s works (The Edible Woman; Survival; Surfacing; Lady Oracle; Selected Poems; Life Before Man; Second Words; Bluebeard’s Egg; Bodily Harm; Murder in the Dark; The Handmaid’s Tale; Selected Poems II; and Cat’s Eye) through both a Gothic lens and a feminist perspective.” (Publisher).

  3528. TIEDEMANN, Mark W. “Inclusions.” New York Review of Science Fiction 15.12 [180] (2003): 1, 4-6. The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake compared to the work of H. G. Wells and Henry James Jr.

  3529. TRIGG, Tina. “Casting Shadows: A Study of Madness in Margaret Atwood’s Novels.” PhD thesis. University of Ottawa, 2003. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (2004). “Madness is a recurrent aspect of Margaret Atwood’s novels to date and represents perhaps her most discomforting challenge to the reader who is implicated as co-creator, interpreter, and participant of the fiction. Her novels question the binary of normality and madness by situating madness both in the margins and foreground, thereby exposing ‘normality’ as a tendentious construct designed to obscure contemporary Western society’s psychic imbalance caused by fear of the unknown within the self.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 64.10 (April 2004): 3692-3693.

  3530. TSUJIMOTO, Yasuko. “Yohaku No Shokkaku: Kono Taeko No Sekai.” Eigo Seinen / Rising Generation 149.2 (May 2003): 88-89. Female villains in The Robber Bride. Journal published out of Tokyo contains articles on English language and literature in both Japanese and English.

  3531. VanSPANCKEREN, Kathryn. “Humanizing the Fox: Atwood’s Poetic Tricksters and Morning in the Burned House.” Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 102-120. “Offers a meditation on death in this most recent poetry volume, suggesting that the book moves from a foxlike cynical vision of survival in the body through imaginative experiences of death to a transformed appreciation of life and vulnerability….” from Introduction, xiv-xv.

  3532. VINET, Dominique. Romanesque britannique et psyché: Étude du signifiant dans le roman anglais. Paris: L’Harmattan; Budapest: L’Harmattan Hongrie; Turin: L’Harmattan Italia, 2003. See especially “L’élaboration du fantasme dans The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood.” 209-232.

  3533. VOGLER, Heini. “Der Letzte Homo Sapiens.” Reformatio 52.3 (2003): 235-238. On Oryx and Crake.

  3534. WAGNER-LAWLOR, Jennifer A. “From Irony to Affiliation in Margaret At-wood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Critique 45.1 (Fall 2003): 89-96.

  3535. WILSON, Sharon R. “The Blind Assassin.” The Literary Encyclopedia: Literature in English around the World. Founding editors Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, and Janet Todd. [2003] http://www.litencyc.com (1 May 2006).

  3536. ______. “Fiction Flashes: Genre and Intertexts in Good Bones.” Margaret At-wood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Sharon R. Wil
son. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 18-41. “Maintains that apart from the differences of genre, style, tone, and a growing use of postmodern techniques and postcolonial theses, Atwood uses some of the same myths and other folklore intertexts, particularly goddess and trickster ones, in fairly consistent ways throughout her career….” from Introduction, xii.

  3537. ______. “Quilting as Narrative Art: Metafictional Construction in Alias Grace.” Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 121-134. “Argues that, like many of Atwood’s previous novels, Alias Grace is again a feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial metafiction, exposing all of our ‘truths’ as theories or speculations, constructions over the abyss….” from Introduction, xv.

  3538. WILSON, Sharon Rose, ed. Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. Individual chapters in this book are indexed in this section. Book comes complete with an introduction by the editor (xi-xv), a list of works cited (173-186), and notes on contributors (187-188).

  3540. ZORZI, Rosella Mamoli. “Margaret Atwood’s Use of the Folk and Fairy Tales.” Annali di Ca’Foscari: Rivista della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell’Università di Venezia 42.4 (2003): 223-238.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  3541. The Blind Assassin. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.

  The Guardian (London) 29 November 2003: 32. By John MULLAN. (67w).

  3542. Bodily Harm. [Sound recording]. Read by Bonnie Hurren. Chivers: BBC Audiobooks America, 2002. 8 cassettes, 10 hours.

  Library Journal 128.5 (15 March 2003): 131. By Laurie SELWYN. (162 w).

  3543. Deux Sollicitudes, with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. Trois-Pistoles: Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 1996.

  Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 170-171. By Nathalie COOKE.

  3544. Life Before Man. [Sound recording]. Read by Lorelei King. Chivers: BBC Audiobooks America, 2003.

  Library Journal 128.17 (15 October 2003): 114. By Laurie SELWYN. (191 w).

  3545. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.

  American Review of Canadian Studies 33.3 (Autumn 2003): 433-435. By Lorna IRVINE.

  Ariel 34.2-3 (April-July 2003): 268-270. By Shannon Catherine MacRAE.

  Canadian Women’s Studies 22 (Spring-Summer 2003): 222-223. By Sherrill CHEDA.

  Contemporary Literature 44.4 (Winter 2003): 737-743. By Susan STREHLE.

  Études anglaises 56.3 (2993): 392-393. By Marta DVORAK.

  Gothic Studies 5.1 (May 2003): 132-133. By David SEED.

  University of Toronto Quarterly 73.1 (Winter 2003-2004): 348-350. By Sherrill GRACE.

  World Literature Today 77.3-4 (October-December 2003): 99-101. By B. A. St. ANDREWS.

  3546. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. London: Virago, 2003. Paperback.

  The Guardian (London) 1 November 2003: Section: Saturday Pages: 21. By John DUGDALE. (151 w).

  Irish Times 1 November 2003: Section: Weekend: Paperbacks: 62. By Kate BATEMAN. (150 w).

  New Straits Times (Malaysia) 8 October 2003: Section: Books: 7. By U-En NG. (70 w).

  3547. Oryx and Crake. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003. Also published: London: Bloomsbury; New York: Nan A. Talese.

  The Advertiser 24 May 2003: Section: Magazine: W13. By Katharine ENGLAND. (648 w).

  The Age (Melbourne) 3 May 2003: Section: Review: 5. By Michelle DE KRETSER. (913 w).

  America 189.4 (18 August 2003): 24-25. By John B. BRESLIN. (728 w).

  Americas 55.1 (September-October 2003): 55-57. By Barbara MUJICA. (2297 w).

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution 4 May 2003 Section: Issue: 5C. By Donna SEAMAN. (716 w).

  Australian Financial Review 13 June 2003: Section: Weekend Review: 4. By Peter CRAVEN. (2129 w).

  Belfast News Letter 17 May 2003: Section: Features: 35. By Lindesay IRVINE. (299 w).

  Birmingham Post 17 May 2003: Section: Features: 49. By Lindesay IRVINE. (811 w).

  BMC [Book of the Month Club] News June 2003: [3].

  Booklist 99.14 (15 March 2003): 1251. By Donna SEAMAN. (233 w).

  Books in Canada 32.7 (October 2003): 18-19. By Cindy McKENZIE. (1637 w).

  Boston Globe 11 May 2003: Section: Books: H6. By Gail CALDWELL. (1129 w).

  Buffalo News 4 May 2003: Section: Book Reviews: F5. By Pat YORK. (393 w).

  Calgary Herald 26 April 2003: Section: Books: ES11. By Catherine FORD. (1136 w).

  Chatelaine 76.6 (June 2003): 32. ANON.

  Chicago Sun-Times 4 May 2003: Section: Show: 14. By Thomas M. DISCH. (874 w).

  Christian Science Monitor 8 May 2003: 18. By Ron CHARLES. (920 w).

  Columbus Dispatch 11 May 2003: Section: Features: 07G. By Jeb PHILLIPS. (614 w).

  Costco Connection 16.3 (May-June 2003): 59. By Valerie RYAN.

  Courier-Mail (Queensland, Australia) 10 May 2003: Section: BAM: M07. By Glyn DAVIS. (992 w).

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  Daily Mail (London) 9 May 2003: 58. By Hephzibah ANDERSON. (449 w).

  Daily News (New Plymouth, NZ) 28 June 2003: Section: Features: 18. By John WHELAN. (466 w).

  Daily News (New York) 11 May 2003: Section: Showtime: 16. By Sherryl CONNELLY. (561 w).

  Daily Telegraph (London) 10 May 2003: 08. By Helen BROWN. (729 w).

  Denver Post 18 May 2003: Section Books: EE-02. By Dorman T. SHINDLER. (694 w).

  Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) 20 July 2003: Section: Arts: E08. By Susan WHITNEY. (468 w).

  Ecologist 33.6 (July 2003): 60. By Jeremy SMITH.

  The Economist (US) 367.8322 (3 May 2003): 76. (722 w).

  The Express 10 May 2003: Section: Features: 65. By Clare HEAL. (535 w).

  Entertainment Weekly 709 (9 May 2003): 79. By Oliver MORTON. (755 w).

  Evening Standard (London) 6 May 2003: 46. By Jane SHILLING. (469 w).

  Financial Times 24 May 2003: 36. By Katherine SALE. (626 w).

  Financial Times 5 July 2003: 2. By Rachel CUSK. (939 w).

  The Gazette (Montreal) 26 April 2003: Section: Books and Visual Arts: 1. By Donna Bailey NURSE. (909 w).

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  The Guardian (London) 10 May 2003: Section: Guardian Saturday Pages: 26. By Natasha WALTER. (1110 w).

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  Hartford Courant (CT) 25 May 2003: Section: Arts: G3. By John FREEMAN. (648 w).

  The Herald (Glasgow) 26 April 2003: 12. By Rosemary GORING. (1193 w).

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  Houston Chronicle 15 June 2003: Section: Zest: 19. By Victoria BROWNWORTH. (606 w).

  Houston Chronicle 12 October 2003: Section: Special: 2. By Fritz LANHAM. (1299 w).

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  Independent on Sunday (London) 1 June 2003: Section: Features: 16. By Catherine PEPINSTER. (739 w).

  International Herald Tribune 1 July 2003: Section: Feature: 18. By Mel GUSSOW. (1255 w).

  Irish Times 3 May 2003: Section: Weekend: 60. By Mary MORRISSY. (868 w).

  January Magazine June 2003. By Linda RICHARDS. Available at http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/oryxandcrake.html (1 May 2006).

  Kirkus Reviews 71.6 (15 March 2003): 408. ANON. (332 w).

  Library Journal 128.8 (1 May 2003): 152. By Caroline HALLSWORTH. (225 w).

  London Free Press 3 May 2003: Section: Lifestyles: D10. By Nancy SCHIEFER. (903 w).

  London Review of Books 25.14 (24 July 2003): 35. By Elaine SHOWALTER.

  Los Angeles Times 11 May 2003: R-3. By Michael HARRIS. (925 w).


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  New Republic 22 September 2003: 31. By Richard A. POSNER. (4103 w).

  New Statesman 132.4638 (19 May 2003): 50. By Hugo BARNACLE. (733 w).

  New York Review of Books 50.11 (3 July 2003): 43-45. By Daniel MENDELSOHN.

  New York Review of Science Fiction 180 (August 2003): 1, 4-6. By Mark TIEDEMANN.

  New York Times 13 May 2003: E9. By Michiko KAKUTANI. (557 w).

  New York Times Book Review 18 May 2003: 12. By Sven BIRKERTS.

  New Yorker 79.12 (19 May 2003): 88. By Lorrie MOORE. (1827 w).

  New Zealand Herald 11 May 2003: Section: Entertainment: s.l. ANON. Available from Lexis-Nexis.

  The Observer 11 May 2003: Section: Observer Review Pages: 15. By Joan SMITH. (976 w).

  Newsweek International 14 July 2003: 49. By Tara PEPPER. (758 w).

  Orlando Sentinel 14 May 2003: K1838. By Mary Ann HORNE. (689 w).

  Ottawa Citizen 27 April 2003: C8. By Robert J. SAWYER. (1121 w).

  Palm Beach Post 20 July 2003: Section: Arts and Entertainment: 7J. By Tess FELDER. (685 w).

  People 59.19 (19 May 2003): 59. By Lee AITKEN.

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8 June 2003: Section: Arts and Entertainment: B4. By John FREEMAN. (624 w).

  Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) 18 May 2003: Section: Sunday Arts: J10. By Karen SANDSTROM. (947 w).

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  The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) 26 April 2003: Section: Books: C8. By Robert REID. (775 w).

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