Marvels & Tales, July 1st, 2005
Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, "Your husband is trying to kill you"? People aren't interested in pop culture books out of some pure random selection. They connect with something real in people's lives. Margaret Atwood to Karla Hammond, July 1978 Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle (1976) is rich in variations on established literary forms and conventions. For its overall formal structure, Atwood draws on the Kunstlerroman ("artist-novel"), a subgenre of the Bildungsroman, which traces the education and growth of a gifted hero from childhood to maturity. However...
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