Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  161.STEVEN, Laurence. “Margaret Atwood’s ‘Polarities’ and George Grant’s Polemics.” American Review of Canadian Studies 18.4 (Winter 1988): 443-454. Outlines a relationship between Grant’s Technology and Empire and Atwood’s “Polarities.” Finds a foreshadowing of this connection in the Grant epigraphs in Survival.

  162.STEVENS, Peter. “Dark Mouth [Procedures for Underground].” Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Ed. Judith McCombs. Boston: Hall, 1988. 37-38. Reprinted from Canadian Literature 50 (Autumn 1971): 91-92.

  163.STILLMAN, Peter. “Public and Private in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Bodily Harm.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 8 (1988): 207-215.

  164.STOUCK, David. “Margaret Atwood.” Major Canadian Authors: A Critical Introduction to Canadian Literature in English. 2nd rev. and exp. ed. Lincoln; London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. 273-294. New edition adds a critical essay on Atwood’s novels and poetry through The Handmaid’s Tale.

  165.STOW, Glenys. “Nonsense as Social Commentary in The Edible Woman.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes 23.3 (Fall 1988): 90-101. Parallel nonsense devices, events, and characters in The Edible Woman and Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories express a common view of society and its conventions.

  166.SULLIVAN, Rosemary. “Breaking the Circle [The Circle Game, Survival, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, The Animals in That Country and Surfacing].” Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Ed. Judith McCombs. Boston: Hall, 1988. 104-114. Reprinted from Malahat Review: Margaret Atwood: A Symposium. Ed. Linda Sandler. 41 (January 1977): 30-41.

  167.THOMAS, Sue. “Mythic Reconception and the Mother/Daughter Relationship in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” ARIEL 19.2 (April 1988): 73-85. Mother and daughter relationships are reflected by grail motifs, quest structure, Freudian symbolism, and biblical myth.

  168.TSCHACHLER, Heinz. “The Reconstruction of Myth in James Dickey’s Deliverance and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, or, the Ideology of Form.” Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian, and European Literatures: 1945-1985. Ed. Mirko Jurak. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: English Department, Filozofka Fakulteta, Edvard Kardelj University of Ljubljana, 1988. 65-77. Deliverance, a “mythic novel,” and Surfacing, a “novel on mythic themes,” imaginatively articulate a modern reconstruction of the mythic quest.

  169.TURNER, Alden R. “Atwood’s Playing Puritans in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian, and European Literatures: 1945-1985. Ed. Mirko Jurak. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: English Department, Filozofka Fakulteta, Ed-vard Kardelj University of Ljubljana, 1988. 85-91. The Handmaid’s Tale is written in the American literary tradition of “fiction founded on fact.” Offred survives by creating an oral narrative that “develops a literary pattern of playing puritans.”

  170.VanSPANCKEREN, Kathryn. “Introduction.” Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Ed. Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988. xix-xxvii. Overview of essays in the “new, comprehensive critical collection encompassing Atwood’s recent work.” The study is “particularly interested in Atwood’s feminism.”

  171.______. “Shamanism in the Works of Margaret Atwood.” Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Ed. Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988. 183-204. Shamanic images in poetry and fiction show spiritual tradition of Amerindian. Focus on descents and nature-oriented vision supports a feminist interpretation.

  172.VanSPANCKEREN, Kathryn and Jan Garden CASTRO, eds. Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. With an autobiographical foreword by Margaret Atwood. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988. Individual essays listed separately in this section.

  173.VOGT, Kathleen. “Real and Imaginary Animals in the Poetry of Margaret At-wood.” Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Ed. Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988. 163-182. Examines the dominance of animals in poetry, alive, dead, real, and metamorphic. Animals reflect the relationship between human and other.

  174.WALKER, Nancy. “Ironic Autobiography: From The Waterfall to The Handmaid’s Tale.” Women’s Studies 15.1-3 (1988): 203-220. Narrators with two selves in The Handmaid’s Tale, Fay Weldon’s Female Friends, Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall, and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn communicate verbal and situational irony to reveal the absurd forces that have continued to subordinate women over the past 20 years.

  175.WALL, Kathleen. “Surfacing: The Matriarchal Myth Re-surfaces.” The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature. Kingston, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1988. 155-170. Archetype for Surfacing is the Callisto myth in a two-encounter form. The violation and renewal experiences “give the narrator psychological virginity.”

  176.WIDMER, Kingsley. Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts. Ann Arbor, MI; London: UMI Research Press, 1988. See especially “Antifem-topian Feminism and Atwood.” 75-80. Ambiguous feminism and dystopian ironies in The Handmaid’s Tale form an “antifemtopianism” that is part of a larger utopian dialect.

  177.WIEDE-BEHRENDT, Ingrid. “Dangling Woman: Die hintergründigen Romane der Anglokanadierin Margaret Atwood.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 21.2 (1988): 108-128. Atwood is a storyteller of the highest order dealing with the problems of the contemporary woman and the sweet Canadians. Her enigmatic novels are similar to the double vision of René Magritte’s paintings.

  178.WILD-BICANIC, Sonia. “Dependence and Resolution in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.” Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian, and European Literatures: 1945-1985. Ed. Mirko Jurak. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: English Department, Filozofka Fakulteta, Edvard Kardelj University of Ljubljana, 1988. 79-83. Reminiscent of Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence,” Atwood’s novels focus on psychological and spiritual regeneration and “independence through resolution.”

  179.WILOCH, Thomas. Atwood entry. Contemporary Authors. Ed. Deborah A. Straub 24. New rev. ser. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1988. 17-22, 25-26. Biographical entry with a primary bibliography and an essay on critical reception of novels, mainly The Handmaid’s Tale.

  180.WILSON, Sharon R. “Sexual Politics in Margaret Atwood’s Visual Art.” Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Ed. Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988. 205-214. Like poetry and fiction, Atwood’s “watercolors represent recurrent, archetypal images of power politics.” Taped interview and color reproductions enrich discussion of 8 paintings.

  181.WOODCOCK, George. “Margaret Atwood: Poet as Novelist [Power Politics, The Circle Game, The Edible Woman, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, The Animals in That Country, Survival and Surfacing].” Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Ed. Judith McCombs. Boston: Hall, 1988. 90-104. Reprinted from The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 312-327.

  182.WURST, Gayle. “Cultural Stereotypes and the Language of Identity: Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian, and European Literatures: 1945-1985. Ed. Mirko Jurak. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: English Department, Filozofka Fakulteta, Edvard Kardelj University of Ljubljana, 1988. 53-64. Three diverse novels use the common process of awakening consciousness to break through restrictive stereotypes.

  183.YORK, Lorraine M. “‘Violent Stillness’: Photography and Postmodernism in Canadian Fiction.” Mosaic 21.2-3 (Spring 1988): 193-201. Includes a short discussion on the use of photography in Atwood’s work.

  184.ZAMOST, Julie. “Recovery of the Mother.” MA thesis. Sonoma State University, 1988. Discusses Atwood’s Surfacing.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  185.Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986; London: J. Cape, 1987; New York: Ballantine, 1987; London: Virago, 1988.

  English Studies 69.5 (October 1988): 419. By J. M. BLOM and L. R. LEAVIS.

  Fiction (London) July 1988: 32. B
y Helen HAYWARD.

  Illinois Writers Review 7.1 (Spring 1988): 8-13. By Brad HOOPER.

  Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide 22.1 (January 1988): 24-25. By B.E.L.

  186.Canlit Foodbook. Toronto: Totem Books, 1987.

  CM 16.4 (July 1988):134-35. By Sharon A. McLENNAN McCUE.

  187.Cat’s Eye. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988; New York: Doubleday, 1988; London: Bloomsbury, 1988.

  Atlantic Provinces Book Review 15.4 (November-December 1988): 12. By Allan DONALDSON.

  Book of the Month Club News December 1988: 2-3. By David Willis McCULLOUGH.

  Booklist 85.8 (15 December 1988): 665. By D[enise] P. D[ONAVIN].

  Canadian Churchman 114.10 (December 1988): 16. By Sheila MARTINDALE.

  Kirkus Reviews 56.24 (15 December 1988): 1754-1755. By Jim KOBAK.

  Malahat Review 85 (December 1988): 131-132. By Constance ROOKE.

  Now (Toronto) 8.9 (3-9 November 1988): 49. By John OUGHTON.

  Quill and Quire 54.10 (October 1988): 18. By Robert FULFORD.

  Saturday Night 103.11 (November 1988): 66-67, 69. By Alberto MANGUEL.

  Toronto Star 1 October 1988: Section: Magazine: M3. By Ken ADACHI. (1669 w.)

  188.Der Report der Magd. Translated by Helga Pfetsch. Dusseldorf: Claassen, 1987. [The Handmaid’s Tale.]

  Argument (Hamburg) 169 (1988): 426-427. By Ingrid WIEDE-BEHRENDT.

  189.Essai sur la littérature canadienne. Translated by Hélène Filion. Montreal: Boreal, 1987. [Survival.]

  Actualité 13.3 (March 1988): 150.

  Nuit Blanche 30 (December 1987-January 1988): 68. By Marie-Christine PIOF-FET.

  190.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Sound recording]. Read by Betty Harris. Charlotte Hall, MD: Recorded Books, 1988. 8 sound cassettes.

  Library Journal 113.17 (15 October 1988): 66. By Janet MORGAN.

  191.The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, London: J. Cape, 1986; New York: Fawcett Crest, London: Virago, 1986

  Emergency Librarian 16.1 (September-October 1988): 54. By Nicholas WHITLE. High school student review.

  Library Journal 113.17 (15 October 1988): 66. By Janet MORGAN.

  Stand 30 (Winter 1988): 77. By Peter LEWIS.

  192.Interlunar. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1984.

  Sunday Times (London) 20 November 1988: G12. By David PROFUMO.

  193.Meurtre dans la nuit. Translated by Hélène Filion. Montreal: Éditions du Remue-ménage, 1987. [Murder in the Dark.]

  Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche féministe 17.128. By Christine KLEIN-LATAUD.

  194.New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Toronto; New York: Oxford UP, 1982.

  In Defence of Art: Critical Essays and Reviews. Ed. with an introduction by Aileen Collins. Kingston, ON: Quarry Press, 1988: 244-47. Reprint of Globe and Mail 11 December 1982. By Louis DUDEK.

  195.Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Toronto; New York: Oxford UP, 1986.

  Washington Post 19 May 1988: Section: Style: C 15. By Dennis DRABELLE. (797 w.)

  196.Selected Poems II. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1986; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. US edition does not include the 13 selections from Murder in the Dark and 34 additional poems that appear in the Canadian publication.

  America 158.18 (7 May 1988): 490. Includes Selected Poems: 1965-1975. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. By Robert HOSMER.

  American Book Review 10.3 (July-August 1988): 21. By Miriam LEVINE.

  Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 185-187. By Lorraine YORK.

  Choice 25.9 (May 1988): 1398. By Jerome H. ROSENBERG.

  Kenyon Review 10.3 (Summer 1988): 136-139. Includes Selected Poems: 1965-1975. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. By Dave SMITH.

  New York Times Book Review 3 April 1988: 12. By Harold BEAVER.

  197.La Servante écarlate. Translated by Sylviane Rue. Paris: Laffont, 1987. [The Handmaid’s Tale.]

  Bulletin critique du livre français 506 (February 1988): 196.

  Châtelaine 29.2 (February 1988): 17. By Mireille SIMARD.

  ~ 1989 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  198.“[Advice on Writing.]” Form. [Videorecording]. s.l.: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1989. 25 min. Authors give advice about writing professionally. This program focuses on form and genre. In addition to Atwood, Brian Aldiss, Maya An-gelou, Elaine Feinstein, P. D. James, Robert Leeson, Deborah Moggach, Christopher Priest, Ruth Rendell, and Fay Weldon appear.

  199.“Afterword.” Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories. Ed. Robert Shapard and James Thomas. New York and London: Norton, 1989. 62-64.

  200.“Age of Lead.” Toronto Life 23.12 (August 1989): 36-39, 50-51, 54. Short fiction.

  201.The Best American Short Stories, 1989. Selected from US and Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

  202.“Biographobia: Some Personal Reflections on the Act of Biography.” Nineteenth-Century Lives: Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley. Ed. Laurence S. Lockridge, John Maynard, and Donald D. Stone. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 1989. 1-8.

  203.Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1989 ©1986. Paperback. ed.

  204.Bodily Harm. Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1989 ©1981.

  205.“Bowering Pie…Some Recollections.” Essays on Canadian Writing 38 (Summer 1989): 3-6. Traces the events that led to a personal encounter with Canadian poet George Bowering in 1967.

  206.“Cat’s Eye.” Seventeen 48 (August 1989): 310-313, 329-331.

  207.Cat’s Eye. Toronto: McClelland-Bantam; New York: Bantam Books; London: Bloomsbury, 1989 ©1988.

  208.Cat’s Eye. [Braille]. Toronto: CNIB, 1989. 9v.

  209.Cat’s Eye. [Sound recording]. Read by Kate Nelligan. New York: Bantam Audio Pub, 1989. 2 sound cassettes. 180 min.

  210.Dancing Girls and Other Stories. New York: Bantam, 1989 ©1982.

  211.Danshingu garusu, Magaretto Atouddo tanpenshu. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1989. Japanese translation of Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Kishimoto Sachiko. Title romanized.

  212.“Death by Landscape.” Saturday Night 104.7 (July 1989): 46-53. Short fiction. Also published in New Woman. November 1989: 148-156.

  213.“Death of a Young Son by Drowning.” Poetry by Canadian Women. Ed. Rosemary Sullivan. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1989. 153-154. Originally published 1970.

  214.Der Report der Magd: Roman. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1989. German translation of The Handmaid’s Tale.

  215.“Earth.” Poetry by Canadian Women. Ed. Rosemary Sullivan. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1989. 160-161. Originally published 1981.

  216.The Edible Woman. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Warner Books; London: Virago Press, 1989 ©1969.

  217.The Edible Woman. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Byers. [Toronto]: CNIB, 1989. 8 sound cassettes in 1 cont. (11:00 hrs.).

  218.En la superficie. La Habana: Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1989. Spanish translation of Surfacing by Ana Busquet.

  219.“Game after Supper.” The Faber Book of 20th Century Women’s Poetry. Ed. Fleur Adcock. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1989. 269. Reprinted from Procedures for Underground, ©1970.

  220.“The Grave of the Famous Poet.” The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 23-30. Reprinted from Dancing Girls and Other Stories, ©1982.

  221.“Great Aunts.” Family Portraits: Remembrances by Twenty Distinguished Writers. Ed. Carolyn Anthony. New York: Doubleday, 1989. 3-16.

  222.“Habitation.” The Faber Book of 20th Century Women’s Poetry. Ed. Fleur Adcock. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1989. 270. Reprinted from Procedures for Underground, ©1970.

  223.The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland-Bantam; New York: Ballantine Books; Fawcett Crest, 1989 ©1985.

  224.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Sound recording]. Brantford, ON: W. Ross MacDonald School, 1989.

  225.“Happy Endings.” Sudden Fiction International: Si
xty Short-Short Stories. Ed. Robert Shapard and James Thomas. New York; London: Norton, 1989. 55-59. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.

  226.Hē historia tes porphyres doules. Athens: Hestia, 1989. Greek translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Paulos Matesis.

  227.Heaven on Earth. [Video recording]. Screenplay by Margaret Atwood and Peter Pearson. [New York] : SVS, 1989. 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.). “Between 1867 and 1914 many orphaned British children were sent to Canada to find new homes. They were called home children. An emotional story of the lives of some of these children, based on historical events.” (Publisher).

  228.“Helpful Hints.” Conde Nast Traveler (February 1989): 40. Travel advice.

  229.“Introduction.” The Dry Wells of India: An Anthology Against Thirst: Selected Poems Entered in the Canadian Poetry Contest 1987-88. Ed. George Woodcock. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1989. i-ii. Atwood was one of the judges of this contest, along with Al Purdy and Woodcock. [Ed. note: The title page references a Foreword by Atwood, not an Introduction.]

  230.“Introduction.” Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Viking Press, 1989. xi-xviii.

  231.“Introduction: Reading Blind.” The Best American Short Stories 1989. Selected from US and Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. xi-xxiii.

  232.Katteøje. Viborg [Denmark]: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 1989. Danish translation of Cat’s Eye by Lisbeth Møller-Madsen.

  233.Katteøyet. [Oslo]: Aschehoug, 1989. Norwegian translation of Cat’s Eye by Inger Gjelsvik.

  234.Kattöga. Stockholm: Prisma, 1989. Swedish translation of Cat’s Eye by Maria Ekman.

  235.Kissansilmä. Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä, 1989. Finnish translation of Cat’s Eye by Matti Kannosto.

  236.Lady Oracle. London: Virago Press, 1989 ©1976.

  237.“Late August.” Touching Fire: Erotic Writings by Women. Ed. Louise Thornton, Jan Sturtevant, and Amber Coverdale Sumrall. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1989. 104. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1965-1975; biographical sketch of Atwood on 211 includes quote on her “sense of the erotic.”