1415. QUARTERMAINE, Peter. “Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: Strange Familiarity.” Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity: New Critical Essays. Ed. Colin Nicholson. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. 119-132. Surfacing follows the pattern set out in Survival—of literature providing both a mirror of the world and a map of the mind.
1416. RAMAKRISHNAN, E. V. “‘To Trust Is to Let Go’: Vision and Reality in At-wood’s Surfacing.” Perspectives on Canadian Fiction. Ed. Sudhakar Pandey. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1994. 106-112.
1417. RAO, Eleonora. “Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle: Writing against Notions of Unity.” Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity. Ed. Colin Nicholson. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994. 133-152. The variety of genres parodied provides a study of the fiction from within the story, much as Jane Austen did in Northanger Abbey.
1418. RAO, T. Nageshwara. “Male Mapping and Female Trapping: Parodic Deconstruc-tion in Atwood’s Lady Oracle.” Perspectives on Canadian Fiction. Ed. Sudhakar Pandey. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1994. 113-120.
1419. RATHBURN, Frances Margaret. “The Ties That Bind: Breaking the Bonds of Victimization in the Novels of Barbara Pym, Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood.” PhD thesis. University of North Texas, 1994. 294 pp. “In this study of several novels each by Barbara Pym, Fay Weldon, and Margaret Atwood, I focus on two areas: the ways in which female protagonists break out of their victimization by individuals, by institutions, and by cultural tradition, and the ways in which each author uses a structural pattern in her novels to propel her characters to solve their dilemmas to the best of their abilities and according to each woman’s personality and strengths….The chapter on Atwood includes detailed analysis of Surfacing and Cat’s Eye, with brief discussions of The Edible Woman, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Robber Bride.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 56.01 (July 1995): 189.
1420. RICCIARDI, Caterina. “‘Second Words’ per Margaret Atwood.” Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 7-8.
1421. ROSS, Robert L. “Canadian Literature.” The Reader’s Adviser. Vol. 2: The Best in World Literature. 14th ed. Ed. Robert DiYanni (vol. ed.) and Marion Sader (series ed.). New Providence, NJ: R. R. Bowker, 1994. 902-907. Quotes Survival as an introduction to Canadian literature; Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English is mentioned; includes a brief biographical sketch and bibliography.
1422. RUSSOTTO, Márgara. “Identidad, espacio y otras afinidades culturales en la nar-rativa de Margaret Atwood.” Revista Venezolana de estudios canadiense 1.1 (March 1994): 59-69. Survey article on Atwood’s works.
1423. SALAT, M. F. “A Delicious Fare: Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman.” Perspectives on Canadian Fiction. Ed. Sudhakar Pandey. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1994. 94-105.
1424. SANFILIPPO, Matteo. “Margaret Atwood, il Canada e gli Stati Uniti.” Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 19-34.
1425. SCACCHI, Anna. “Lo specchio barocco e la chiesa quacchera: La morte dell’autore in Lady Oracle.” Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 65-76.
1426. SCANNAVINI, Anna. “‘Where Then Do Babies Come From?’ La difficile gen-erazione del testo in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 97-104.
1427. SCHALL, Birgitta. “Von der Version zur Vision: Von der Melancholie zur Trauer. Postmoderne Text- und Blickökonomien bei Margaret Atwood.” PhD thesis. University of Munich, 1994.
1428. SHANDS, Kerstin W. The Repair of the World: The Novels of Marge Piercy. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1994. passim. Atwood’s writings on Piercy, especially her critique of Woman on the Edge of Time, are discussed.
1429. SHAW, Monica Leigh. “The Balanced One Survives: Gender Roles and Women in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, Bodily Harm and Cat’s Eye.” MA thesis. University of Alabama (Huntsville), 1994. 111 pp. “In her novels Surfacing, Bodily Harm, and Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood describes a woman’s successful journey towards self-knowledge and ending the victimization she has suffered as a result of the patriarchal feminine gender role….Atwood’s vision implies that women and men inherently possess traits patriarchally attributed to both the masculine and the feminine, and that accepting these traits is a first step toward overcoming the patterns of dominance and submission in patriarchal society’s relationships, both personal and political.” (Author). For more see MAI 33.04 (August 1995): 1085.
1430. SINGH, Sunaina. The Novels of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai: A Comparative Study in Feminist Perspectives. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1994.
1431. SISK, David Warner. “Claiming Mastery over the Word: Transformations of Language in Six Twentieth-Century Dystopias.” PhD thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994. 405 pp. “The present study examines the central roles language plays in six representative dystopian novels in English: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, and Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue I and II….Dystopia has emerged as the dominant branch of speculative fiction better suited to examine the repressive bases upon which such upheavals are founded. Speculative fiction offers alternative views of human development by constantly posing variations on the theme of ‘What if....?’ Dystopian authors seize upon language as a topic guaranteed to excite reader interest and empower didactic concerns. Throughout these novels, language is the principal weapon through which oppressors seize and maintain power. At the same time, language also serves as the primary tool by which the oppressed resist and rebel.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 55.07 (January 1995): 1972.
1432. SMITH, Bonnie Lynne. “The Sleeping Beauty Subtext in Rosario Ferré’s ‘La Bella Durmiente’ and Margaret Atwood’s ‘Bluebeard’s Egg.’” MA thesis. Florida Atlantic University, 1994. 92 pp. “The well-known Grimms’ fairy tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’ forms the subtext of two recent literary works, Rosario Ferre’s novella ‘La bella durmiente’ (1976) and Margaret Atwood’s short story ‘Bluebeard’s Egg’ (1983). Both contemporary authors suggest that certain negative aspects inherent in the Sleeping Beauty paradigm should not persist in women’s literature, unless the texts lead to transformation and self-realization of the heroines. This study demonstrates how the authors expose the fallacy in the paradigm, depart from it, and refigure it by transforming their heroines into characters quite distinct from the Grimm prototype.…As the characters distance themselves from hegemonic patriarchal traditions, each author’s work is also removed from the referent of masculine literary traditions and returned to its origins, the oral tale.” (Author). For more see MAI 33.03 (June 1995): 728.
1433. SNODGRASS, Mary Ellen. The Handmaid’s Tale: Notes. Lincoln, NE: Cliffs Notes; New York: Hungry Minds, 1994. 85 pp.
1434. STAELS, Hilde. “Canada en de Conditie Van De Vrouw: Margaret Atwood over Kolonisatie.” The Empire Writes Back (again): Vergelijkende literatuurweten-schap en post-koloniale literatuurstudie. Ed. Luc Herman. Antwerp: Vlaamse Vereniging voor Algemene en Vergelijkende Literatuurwetenschap, 1994. 37-48.
1435. STILLMAN, Peter, and Anne S. JOHNSON. “Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Utopian Studies 5.2 (1994): 70-86.
1436. STRONG, Amy L. “That Glaring, Hideously Difficult White Space: Feminist Visions in To the Lighthouse and Lady Oracle.” MA thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994. 40 pp.
1437. TANTAKIS, Penny. “‘I Am the Market’: A Critique of the Commodity in Selected Fiction by Margaret Atwood.” MA thesis. Carleton University, 1994. 133 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1994). “This thesis explores the nature and development of Margaret Atwood’s materialist vision of culture. Drawing upon Marxist, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories, my theoretical framework allows me to move beyond traditional historical materialism and extend the notion of the commodity to map out the materiality of sign systems operating in Atwood’s work and culture. I suggest that my theoretical paradigm, when applied to The Edible Woman
, Lady Oracle, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Robber Bride, engages issues of subjectivity and hegemony on a spectacular stage of late capitalism.” (Author). For more see MAI 33.03 (June 1995): 733.
1438. THOMPSON, Dawn. “A Politics of Memory: Cognitive Strategies of Five Women Writing in Canada.” PhD thesis. University of British Columbia, 1994. 194 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1994). A study of Surfacing, plus Nicole Brossard’s Picture Theory, Beatrice Culleton’s In Search of April Raintree, Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone, and Régine Robin’s Québécoite. For more see DAI-A 55.08 (February 1995): 2381.
1439. TRABATTONI, Grazia. “The Edible Atwood: Il cibo negli scritti di Margaret At-wood.” Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 77-86.
1440. TRAPANI, Hilary Jane. “Violence, Postcoloniality and (Re)Placing the Subject: A Study of the Novels of Margaret Atwood.” MA thesis. University of Hong Kong, 1994. 72 pp.
1441. TROUARD, Dawn. “Diverting Swine: The Magical Relevancies of Eudora Welty’s Ruby Fisher and Circe.” The Critical Response to Eudora Welty’s Fiction. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1994. 337, 354. Brief mention of Atwood’s Second Words.
1442. TRUMAN, James C. W. “We Lived in the Blank White Spaces at the Edges of Print: Patriarchy and Resistance in The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye.” MA thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994. 78 pp.
1443. TUCKER, Lindsey. Textual Escap(e)ades: Mobility, Maternity, and Textuality in Contemporary Fiction by Women. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1994. See especially Chapter 2, “Writing to the Other Side: Metafictional Mobility in Atwood’s Lady Oracle,” 35-53.
1444. VAN HERK, Aritha. “Smoke and Mirrors.” Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes 29.3 (Fall 1994): 158-162. Brief mention of Atwood in discussion of The Canadian Essay (ed. Lynch and Rampton, 1991).
1445. VOKEY, Krista R. “Tingles of Terror: The Neo-Gothic Fiction of Margaret At-wood and Jane Urquart.” MA thesis. Memorial University, 1994. 207 pp. For more see MAI 33.06 (December 1995): 1678.
1446. VOROS, Joseph J. (Joseph John). “The Fantastic, the Uncanny, and the Marvelous: Aspects of the Unreal in Three Canadian Novels.” MA thesis. University of Manitoba, 1994. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1997). “The thesis examines Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage, and Robert Kroetsch’s What the Crow Said in relation to structural paradigms established by Tzvetan Todorov and Sigmund Freud.” (Author). For more see MAI 35.05 (October 1997): 1154.
1447. WAGNER-MARTIN, Linda. Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1994. 26, 28. The criticism that Atwood and other female writers receive differs from that of male authors.
1448. WARD, David. “Surfacing: Separation, Transition, Incorporation.” Margaret At-wood: Writing and Subjectivity: New Critical Essays. Ed. Colin Nicholson. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. 94-118. Draws upon Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage to analyze Surfacing.
1449. WEAR, Delese, and Lois Lacivita NIXON. Literary Anatomies: Women’s Bodies and Health in Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. passim. The Handmaid’s Tale and “Giving Birth” are cited.
1450. WECZERKA, Margrit. “Die struktur von Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” MA thesis. Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, 1994. 86 pp.
1451. WEISS, Allan. “The Salt Garden.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit, MI; London; Washington, DC: St. James Press, 1994. 883-884. Summary and critique.
1452. WHEELER, Kathleen. “Modernist” Women Writers and Narrative Art. New York: New York UP, 1994. 2, 13, 146. Slight references to Atwood.
1453. WILLS, Deborah. “Representing Resistance: Feminist Dystopia and the Revolting Body.” PhD thesis. University of Alberta, 1994. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1995). “This dissertation explores the possibilities and impossibilities of resistance elaborated within twentieth-century feminist dystopian narrative. It argues that these texts consistently, although to differing degrees, deflate and undermine the viability of strategies of insurgence, even while representing cultures which demand such strategies.” (Author). See especially Chapter 2, which studies The Handmaid’s Tale. For more see DAI-A 56.04 (October 1995): 1351.
1454. WILSON, Rob. “Techno-Euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime.” National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Ed. Donald E. Pease. Durham, NC; London: Duke UP, 1994. 226-227. Footnote reference to Survival in which Atwood describes the Canadian sublime.
1455. WOLMARK, Jenny. Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. 100-107. Section of a chapter is devoted to Atwood; it is suggested that The Handmaid’s Tale is used as a metaphor in the reexamination of gender relations.
1456. WOODCOCK, George. “Atwood, Margaret (Eleanor).” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit, MI; London; Washington, DC: St. James Press, 1994. 36-38. Biography of Atwood; includes list of publications and bibliographical references.
1457. YORK, Lorraine M. “Home Thoughts or Abroad? A Rhetoric of Place in Modern and Postmodern Canadian Political Poetry.” Essays on Canadian Writing 51-52 (Winter 1993-Spring 1994): 321-339. Cites work from The Animals in That Country, True Stories, and Two-Headed Poems within a discussion of literary place in Canadian poetry.
1458. ______. “Wilderness Tips.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit, MI; London; Washington, DC: St. James Press, 1994. 974-975. Summary and critique of the short story.
Reviews of Atwood’s Works
1459. Cat’s Eye. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Doubleday; London: Bloomsbury, 1988.
Indian Review of Books 4.1 (October-December 1994): 8-9. By Shashi DESHPANDE.
1460. Good Bones and Simple Murders. New York: Talese / Doubleday, 1994.
Times Union (Albany, NY) 6 December 1994: Section: Life & Leisure: C2. By Susan CAMPBELL. (501 w).
1461. The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985; Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: J. Cape, 1986; New York: Fawcett Crest, London: Virago, 1986.
Utopian Studies 5.2 (1994): 70 By Peter G. STILLMAN and S. Anne JOHNSON.
1462. An Interview with Margaret Atwood. American Audio Prose Library; Margaret Atwood reading “Unearthing Suite.” American Audio Prose Library; Margaret Atwood reads from The Handmaid’s Tale and talks about this futuristic fable of misogyny as compared to Orwell’s 1984. A Moveable Feast #17. Audio.
Canadian Literature 141 (Summer 1994): 121-123. By Nancy ROBERTS.
1463. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; London: Bloomsbury; New York: Talese / Doubleday, 1993.
Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women 9.3 (Spring 1994): 2-4. By B. A. ST. ANDREWS.
BorderCrossings: A Magazine of the Arts 13.2 (April 1994): 56-58. By Wayne TEFS.
Canadian Book Review Annual 1993. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: CBRA, 1994, entry number 3002. By Sarah ROBERTSON.
Canadian Forum 72.827 (March 1994): 44-45. By Sherrill GRACE.
Courier Mail (AU) 8 January 1994: Section: Weekend: F6. By David MYERS. (854 w).
The Cresset 57.4 (February 1994): 29-30. By Meridith BRAND.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1993. Ed. James W. Hipp. Detroit, MI; London: Gale Research, 1994: 15. Atwood with others in “The Year in the Novel” survey. By George GARRETT and Kristin van OGTROP.
Herizons 8.1 (Spring 1994): 30. By Kathy PRENDERGAST.
Iowa Woman 14.2 (1994): 40. By Marie Kester KROHN,
Jerusalem Post 18 February 1994: Section: Books: 27. By Richard EDER. (614 w).
Missouri Review 17.1 (1994): 185.
National Review 46.2 (7 February 1994): 66-68. By Maggie GALLAGHER.
New Republic 210.1 (3 January 1994): 36-39. By Ann HULBERT. (3207 w).
New Yorker “Books Briefly Noted.” 69.47 (24 January 1994): 95. ANON.
Paragraph: The Canadian Fiction Review 15.3-4 (Winter 1993-Spring 1994): 40-41. By Alice PALUMBO.
Partisan Review 61.1 (Winter 1994): 80-95. By Pearl K. BELL. Review includes 9 other novels.
Pittsburg Post-Gazette 2 January 1994: Section: Entertainment: E5. By Betsy KLINE. (568 w).
Rapport: West Coast Review of Books, Art and Entertainment 17.6 (January-February 1994): 24. By Paulette KOZICK.
Roanoke Times & World News 20 March 1994: Section: Horizon: B4. By Mary Ann JOHNSON. (444 w).
St. Petersburg Times (FL) 2 January 1994: Section: Perspective: 7d. By David WALTON. (603 w).
Seattle Times 4 February 1994: LIT NewsBank 1994: 12: D3. By Melinda BARGREEN.
University of Toronto Quarterly 64.1 (Winter 1994): 28-29. By T. L. CRAIG.
Women’s Review of Books 11.4 (January 1994): 15. By Carol ANSHAW. See also: Women’s Review of Books “Letters.” 11.6 (March 1994): 4. Letters respond to Carol Anshaw’s review of The Robber Bride.
World and I: A Chronicle of Our Changing Era 9.2 (February 1994): 310-315. By Roberta RUBENSTEIN.
1464. The Robber Bride (4 cassettes, abridged). New York: Bantam Audio, 1993. Audio.
Forbes FYI: A Supplement to Forbes Magazine 153.6 (14 March 1994): S52. By Katherine A. POWERS.
Houston Chronicle 15 January 1994: Section: Houston: 2. By Louis B. PARKS. (232 w).
Library Journal 119.3 (15 February 1994): 206. By Rochelle RATNER.
Times Union (Albany, NY) 11 January 1994: Section: Life Leisure: C2. (191 w). By Jon W. SPARKS.
1465. Surfacing. London: Virago, 1994; Good Bones. London: Virago, 1994.
TLS 1 July 1994: 22. ANON.
Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood’s Works
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