The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.

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El doctor Pierre Dukan, cuya dieta es seguida actualmente por más de 24 millones de personas en todo el mundo, vuelve a seducirnos y sorprendernos con un nuevo libro que no dejará a nadie indiferente. Guardar la línea sin perder las formas es una obra polémica, directa y ácida, aunque no exenta del humor que caracteriza al doctor Dukan, que arremete contra falsos gurús, líderes de opinión, modistos e incluso el cine. En estas páginas encontraremos un verdadero y demoledor alegato a favor de la mujer y de su feminidad como no se había escrito jamás.

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In the preface to this volume, Howells (Univ. of London, UK) promises "a comprehensive overview " of Atwood's work. However, her prefatory claim that "all chapters have been updated" and several "substantially rewritten" from the first edition (CH, Jan'07, 44-2561) is misleading: some have been more extensively revised than others. Some of the new or newly revised chapters reflect the growing interest in Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (2003--13): Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam. Most of the predominantly European contributors are more interested in Atwood's recent novels than in her poetry or literary criticism or her profound engagements with Canadian culture. Two chapters are nonetheless outstanding. In "Margaret Atwood and Environmentalism," J. Brooks Bouson finds in 21st-century radical environmentalism an instructive contrast for reading Crake as either a "mad" or a "rational" scientist who attempts to solve "the unfolding ecological crisis." In "The Hulu and MGM Television Adaptations of The Handmaid's Tale," Eva-Marie Kröller documents the fiercely conflicted responses to recent adaptations of Atwood's work in various media. Given the overlaps, this book is recommended only for libraries that do not own the first edition. Summing Up: Recommended. With the above caveat. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --Tracy Ware, emeritus, Queen's University at Kingston

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Note on editions used	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xii
Margaret Atwood chronology	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
1 Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context	p. 12
2 Biography/autobiography	p. 28
3 Power politics: power and identity	p. 43
4 Margaret Atwood's female bodies	p. 58
5 Margaret Atwood and environmentalism	p. 72
6 Margaret Atwood and history	p. 86
7 Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction	p. 100
8 Margaret Atwood's humor	p. 114
9 Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics	p. 130
10 Margaret Atwood's short stories and shorter fictions	p. 145
11 Margaret Atwood's dystopian visions: The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake	p. 161
12 Blindness and survival in Margaret Atwood's major novels	p. 176
Further reading	p. 191
Index	p. 196

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