Gina Wisker: Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Cover: 9780826426017 | Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale | Gina Wisker | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts including:
- Representation of women's roles, gender, sexuality and power
- Language, style and form
- Dystopias and genre fictions
- Power, control and religious fundamentalism.

Combining helpful guidance on reading Atwood's text with overviews of significant stylistic and thematic issues and an introduction to criticism, this is an ideal companion to reading and studying A Handmaid's Tale.

Über den Autor

Gina Wisker

Zusammenfassung

Introduces and uses critical theory informed approaches to explore the novel as a feminist text

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Quotations and Abbreviations
1. Context
2. Overview of Themes
3. Reading The Handmaid's Tale
4. Reception and Influence
5. Guide to Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780826426017
ISBN-10:	0826426018
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wisker, Gina
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 8 mm
Von/Mit:	Gina Wisker
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.06.2010
Gewicht:	0,201 kg