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 pub...
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 C...
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 fict...
Surfacing is the second published novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1972. It has been called a companion novel to Atwood's collection of poems, Power Politics[1], which was written the previous...
Novel skims the surface -- poorly By TIM CUPRISIN of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, December 17, 2000 -- A Desert in Bohemia. By Jill Paton Walsh. St. Martin's Press. 288 pages. $23.95. This moody little novel about the...
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Widespread interest in surface-enhanced spectroscopy has been rekindled by the development of new fabrication methods for plasmonic materials (1,2), theoretical modeling (3,4), spectroscopic instrumentation (5–9), and novel detection schemes (10). When the incident photon frequency is resonant with the collective oscillation of the conduction electrons,...
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It is the life-impulse [Atwood] uncovers and venerates [in Surfacing] alone on the island peeling off her civilized skins. This is the impulse [she] uncovers in her poetry, honoring the claim-to-life of whatever lives. The narrator of Surfacing sees a heron killed for sport hanging in a tree and is as powerfully converted as Saint Eustace coming upon the stag with the cross between its antlers…. Her magnified understanding is not occupied with what the heron might stand for, or mean to humans, but wi...
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