Margaret Atwood: the essential guideIn Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Margaret Atwood. This guide will deal with her themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. |
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Alias Grace ANALYSE ASSESS attitudes Atwood's The Handmaid's Becka Blind Assassin Bluebeard's Egg Booker Prize Canadian Literature chapter characterisation characters collection COMPARE consider context describe detailed DISCUSSION OR ESSAYS dystopia Edible Woman EVALUATE EXAMINE example EXPLORE fantasy Feminist fiction Focus freedom genre Gilead glossary of literary Handmaid's Tale happened Historical Notes idea images INTERPRET interview with Atwood Iris Iris's joke kinds Lady Oracle language Laura Look Loulou Margaret Atwood means memory metaphors Moira myth narrative method narrator newspaper Nineteen Eighty-Four novel Offred Offred's narrative opening section particular phrases Pieixoto plot poetry political reader Reading activities Reading guides realise references relate relationship RESEARCH Robber Bride romance Scarlet Ibis short stories social satire storytelling suggest telling thematic concerns theme There's things told Toronto Utopia VINTAGE LIVING TEXTS vocabulary whole women words writing