Essays about: "Margaret Atwood"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 35 essays containing the words Margaret Atwood.

  1. 6. Rewritings of Circe: Representation, Resistance, and Change in Feminist Revisionism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Maria Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Rewriting; Feminism; Mythology; Odyssey; Circe; Welty; Atwood; Miller;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the feminist revisionism of the Circe-myth in the rewritings by Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, and Madeline Miller. To that end, the paper first examines three different ways of discussing rewritings: Jeremy M. READ MORE

  3. 7. Complicity and Resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Testaments

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

    Author : Anna Josefsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Literature study; Atwood;

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  4. 8. "I'm Going Away Now" : Posthumanism and the End of the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Evelina Magnusson; [2020]
    Keywords : Oryx and Crake; Margaret Atwood; posthumanism; Anthropocene; Oryx and Crake; Margaret Atwood; posthumanism; antropocen;

    Abstract : This essay explores the themes of posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. It analyses how the novel describes humanity’s effects on the earth in the novel and its human and non-human inhabitants, during the geological era that is called the Anthropocene. READ MORE

  5. 9. Transformative literature transferring power: An analysis of authorial control in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Circe by Madeline Miller and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Kajsa Reinholdsson; [2020]
    Keywords : rewriting; transformative literature; narrative power; anxiety of influence; wide sargasso sea; circe; hag-seed; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : By analysing three different works of transformative literature, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which power may express itself in the context of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea, Circe and Hag-Seed are three novels that, while remaining similar in that they are rewrites of canonised literature such as Jane Eyre, The Odyssey, and The Tempest, are different enough to provide a wide array of examples of rewrites. READ MORE

  6. 10. Hegemonic Masculinity in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale : A gender analysis on the masculinity of the two characters Luke and the Commander in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Adam Myrén; [2020]
    Keywords : Margaret Atwood; Hegemonic masculinity; Masculinity; The Handmaid s Tale; Gender;

    Abstract : This essay deals with how Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) works as a critique of the patriarchal hierarchy and the values it brings. This is portrayed in a dystopic setting in which women are subordinate to men, but also men being subordinate and marginalized by other men. READ MORE