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| Name: |
Margaret Eleanor Atwood | | Birth Date: |
1939 | | Place of Birth: |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | Nationality: |
Canadian | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
author, novelist, poet, cultural activist |
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 Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
9,683 words, approx. 32 pages
 One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has... summary from source:
 Biography of Margaret Atwood
6,447 words, approx. 22 pages
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the... summary from source:
Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5,060 words, approx. 17 pages
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's...
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 Margaret Atwood Quotes
5,290 words, approx. 18 pages
 Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 18 November 1939 ) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976) 1.2 Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987) 1.2.1 Marrying the Hangman 1.3 Morning in the Burned House...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Atwood, Margaret (Eleanor)
169 words, approx. 1 pages(born Nov. 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ont., Can.) Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, noted for her Canadian nationalism and her feminism. Atwood's family was continually on the move because of her entomologist father's work, which often took the family into... summary from source:
Atwood, Margaret (Eleanor)
83 words, approx. 1 pages(born Nov. 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ont., Can.) Canadian poet, novelist, and critic. Atwood attended the University of Toronto and Harvard University. In the poetry collection The Circle Game (1964; Governor General's Award), she celebrates the natural world... summary from source:
 Atwood, Margaret Summary
24,897 words, approx. 83 pagesInternationally acclaimed as a novelist, poet, and short story writer, Atwood has emerged as a major figure in contemporary feminist writing. Through female protagonists and narrators who often journey from victimization to self-actualization, Atwood... summary from source:
 Margaret Atwood Information
2,279 words, approx. 8 pages
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she is a winner of the Booker Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor...
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 Habitat Australia Atwood's apocalypse.(Margaret Atwood)
02/01/2004: 1,080 words, approx. 4 pages Spurred on by media reports of increasingly audacious forays into genetic engineering, Booker-prize winning author Margaret Atwood has woven a disquieting tale of the last man alive--that cannot easily be dismantled by science. ********** IF YOU'RE PRONE TO CLAUSTROPHOBIA, then reading... summary from source:
Utopian Studies Margaret Atwood: A Biography.(Review)
03/22/2000: 1,339 words, approx. 5 pages Nathalie Cooke. Margaret Atwood: A Biography. Toronto: ECW Press, 1998. 378 pp. $24.95. THE LONG AND VARIED LIST of resources used in this biography of Margaret Atwood is evidence of Nathalie Cooke's scholarship and of her academic background in Atwood studies. Cited... summary from source:
 AP News Elizabeth Hay wins $40,000 book prize
11/8/2007: 270 words, approx. 1 pagesElizabeth Hay, a former radio journalist who long hoped to write a novel about her "golden summer" working in northern Canada in the 1970s, won the lucrative Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Late Nights on Air.""I am very thrilled and very lucky — so... summary from source:
AP News Gordimer gets French Legion of Honor
4/2/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pagesNobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Karen F. Stein
8,657 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Stein offers a thematic and stylistic overview of Atwood's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Russell Brown
7,583 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Brown explores the recurring images in Atwood's work, focusing on how they function in her fiction and poetry.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%Humor, Power and Victimization in "Rape Fantasies."
2,522 words, approx. 8 pages
Examines Humor, power and victimization in Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies." Provides biographical detail on the author. Discusses some of her earlier works and details common themes. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 86%Rape Fantasies
932 words, approx. 3 pages
In Margaret Atwood's short story "Rape Fantasies", several women casually discuss their personal rape fantasies. The main idea being portrayed through out the story is that women battle with feeling powerful and powerless. She also discusses the distinction between fantasy and fear in her story.
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Essay Grade: 83%There Is Nowhere to Run or Hide
730 words, approx. 2 pages
In her short story "Happy Endings," Margaret Atwood uses creative, blunt anthologized plots to express the existence and the actuality of others that develops ideas of escape, but that there is no escape and that death is inevitable.
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