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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
9683 words, approx. 32.3 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 pub... summary from source:
 Biography of Margaret Atwood
6447 words, approx. 21.5 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 C... summary from source:
Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5060 words, approx. 16.9 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 fict...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Handmaid's Tale Summary
4,080 words, approx. 14 pagesThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Margaret Atwood worked as a cashier, waitress, market research writer and film script writer before publishing her own poetry in 1961. The publication of The Edible Woman in... summary from source:
 The Handmaid's Tale Information
5,832 words, approx. 19 pages
 The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. The novel, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[1] explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they...
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 The Washington Post Tale': Stand Or Deliver
03/09/1990: 451 words, approx. 2 pages IF YOU can suspend believability in "The Handmaid's Tale"-and with recognizable, present-day faces Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Natasha Richardson, Elizabeth McGovern and Aidan Quinn performing in a setting described as "Once upon a time in the recent future," that could prove initially difficult-then this... summary from source:
The Washington Post Tellers And Their Tales
06/13/1993: 1,711 words, approx. 6 pages "THIS IS NOT a story to pass on," declares Toni Morrison with bitter irony in her celebrated work Beloved, a novel that exposes the destructiveness of an untold past. Morrison is not alone in her determination to preserve and tell the past. Many American...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Coral Ann Howells
8,686 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Howells discusses the presentation of female self-identity, memory, sensual experience, and Offred's resistance to patriarchal authority in The Handmaid's Tale.
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Critical Essay by Lois Feuer
6,522 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Feuer discusses ways in which Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale both partakes of and extends the dystopian genre, focusing on Atwood's questioning of certainty and truths in the novel.
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Critical Essay by Hilde Staels
6,277 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Staels examines modes of resistance and creative self-expression in the language and poetic imagery of Offred's narrative in The Handmaid's Tale. According to Staels, “In a society that censors aesthetic speech, Offred's poetic discourse reactivates the lost potential of language and the conditions for the production of meaning.”
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Essay Grade: 98%Escape and Variety
1,897 words, approx. 6 pages
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale highlights the human need for variety, freedom and respect among a dystopian society.
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