Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics

By Frank Davey

Margaret Atwood's writing, according to Davey, reveals not only an extraordinary facility with language, but also a deep mistrust of it as something shaped by an instrumental and largely male culture. Her language directs its readers to a hidden level of itself - unspoken, symbolic, gestural - and away from denotative meaning. In discussions of her poetry, fiction, short stories, and criticism, Davey offers a 'glossary' of recurrent Atwood images and symbols that can open this hidden level in nearly all of her writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889222177
• ISBN13: 9780889222175
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"