Description |
xxvii, 219 pages ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
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New Items
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Epsom Lectures
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Contents |
Introduction: Into the labyrinth -- 1. Orientation: Who do you think you are? -- 2. Duplicity: The jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double -- 3. Dedication: The Great God Pen -- 4. Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & Co -- 5. Communion: Nobody to Nobody -- 6. Descent: Negotiating with the dead |
Summary |
"Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?" "Margaret Atwood's wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Writing |
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Fiction |
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Biography |
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Overseas item |
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Margaret Atwood |
Notes |
A book which grew out of a series of six Empson lectures given by Margaret Atwood at Cambridge University |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207) and index |
Notes |
Also published New York : Anchor Books, 2003 |
Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Authorship.
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
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Authors -- Psychology.
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Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Infrared photography.
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Photography -- Technique.
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Fiction -- Authorship.
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Authorship.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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LC no. |
2001025135 |
ISBN |
0521662605 |
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