1619. HARIPRASANNA, A. “Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman: An Expression of Feminine Sensibility.” Canadian Literature Today. Ed. R. K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 1995. 118-125.
1620. HENGEN, Shannon. “Zenia’s Foreignness.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 271-286.
1621. HERZIG-DANIELSON, Viola Angela. “The Aspect of Survival in Margaret At-wood’s Novels The Edible Woman and The Handmaid’s Tale.” MA thesis. Oldenburg University, 1995.
1622. HITE, Molly. “An Eye for an I: The Disciplinary Society in Cat’s Eye.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 191-206.
1623. ______. “Optics and Autobiography in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” Twentieth Century Literature 41.2 (Summer 1995): 135-159. “More than any other of Margaret Atwood’s fictions, the 1988 novel Cat’s Eye raises questions about the relation of the autobiographical ‘real’ to the meaning of a work of literature.” (Author).
1624. HOLLIS, Hilda. “Between the Scylla of Essentialism and the Charybdis of Decon-struction: Margaret Atwood’s True Stories.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 117-145.
1625. HOLLISTER, Michael. “Spatial Cognition in Literature: Text-Centered Contextu-alization.” Mosaic 28.2 (June 1995): 1-21. Reference to Atwood’s Surfacing that illustrates “spatial dynamics of psychic growth.”
1626. HOWELLS, Coral Ann. “The Figure of the Demonic Woman in Margaret At-wood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Postmodernism and Feminism: Canadian Contexts. Ed. Shirin Kudchedkar. New Delhi: Pencraft, 1995. 133-141.
1627. ______. “‘It All Depends on Where You Stand in Relation to the Forest’: Atwood and the Wilderness from Surfacing to Wilderness Tips.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 47-70.
1628. ______. Margaret Atwood. New York: St. Martin’s Press; Basingstoke [UK]: Macmillan, 1995. Study focuses on Atwood’s 8 novels, a book of short stories, and her analysis of Canadian literature.
1629. HOWLETT, Jeffrey Winslow. “Criminal Intuition: Late Twentieth-Century Novels of Confinement.” PhD thesis. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995. 242 pp. Includes discussion of Atwood’s Bodily Harm. For more see DAI-A 56.04 (October 1995): 1355.
1630. KARRASCH, Anke. Die Darstellung Kanadas im literarischen Werk von Margaret Atwood. Trier, Germany: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995. Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral), University of Wuppertal, 1995.
1631. KEITH, Cassandra M. “A Brief History of the Literature of English Canada.” RQ 34.4 (22 June 1995): 447ff. Includes discussion of Atwood’s place not only as author but as critic.
1632. KEITH, W. J. “Ethnicity, Canada and Canadian Literature.” Queen’s Quarterly 102.1 (Spring 1995): 100-111. Atwood cited for her ability to recreate half-Ukrainian, half-Jewish, character Lesje in Life Before Man (1979).
1633. KELLY, Darlene. “‘Either Way, I Stand Condemned’: A Women’s Place in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall.” English Studies in Canada 21.3 (September 1995): 320-332.
1634. KENNEDY, Marjorie. “Fire of Roses: Two Short Stories and a Novel Excerpt.” MFA thesis. Warren Wilson College, 1995. “Defamiliarizing the familiar in the stories of Margaret Atwood and John Cheever.”
1635. KEULEN, Maggi. “‘Where Is Here?’ Or: The Importance of First Sentences in Novels.” Near Encounters: Festschrift for Richard Martin. Ed. Hanjo Berressem and Bernd Herzogenrath. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1995. 151-159. Atwood compared to Aldous Huxley.
1636. KLARER, Mario. “Orality and Literacy as Gender-Supporting Structures in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Mosaic 28.4 (1 December 1995): 129-142.
1637. LAINE-WILLE, Ilona. “Literatur als Spiegel: Kulturkritik in Christa Wolfs Kas-sandra und Margaret Atwoods Der Report der Magd.” MA thesis. McGill University, 1995. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1996). German with abstracts in English and French.
1638. LAL, Malashri. “Canadian Gynocritics: Contexts of Meaning in Margaret At-wood’s Surfacing.” Perspectives on Women: Canada and India. Ed. Aparna Basu. Bombay: Allied Pub. Ltd., 1995. 180-192.
1639. LANE, Patrick. “Lives of the Poets.” Geist 7.17 (1995): 29-34. Memories of Canadian literary figures, including Atwood.
1640. LAPPAS, Catherine. “Rewriting Fairy Tales: Transformation as Feminist Practice in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” PhD thesis. St. Louis University, 1995. 169 pp. “Whether as subtext or intertext, the fairy tale appears consistently throughout the cultural productions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist criticism of the fairy tale contributes to understanding the control and victimization of female figures as a function of a patriarchal bias that proclaims its ahistoricity in order to justify the scripting of women’s lives.…In the twentieth century, feminist writers have reworked the old stories and have released aspects of feminine power previously curbed or suppressed. The tales inscribed in Anne Sexton’s Transformations (1971), Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (1979), and Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg (1983) seize upon the polymorphism of the fairy tale both to reflect and to critique ideologies of late capitalism and to revise myths of patriarchy….The feminist rewrite invokes ‘old’ forms in order to reestablish a tradition of female storytelling particular to its historical and cultural context.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 56.09 (March 1996): 3594.
1641. LAURENCE, Margaret. A Very Large Soul: Selected Letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian Writers. Ed. with an introduction by J. A. Wainwright. Dunve-gan, ON: Cormorant Books, 1995. Laurence’s correspondence between 1962 and 1986 with such writers as Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Alice Munro.
1642. LAWN, Jennifer. “Our Bodies, Their Selves: Gender, Language, and Knowledge in Chapter Seventeen of Cat’s Eye.” Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6.3-4 (1995): 269-283. “Those interested in Atwood’s sexual politics in general, and the representation of female bodies in particular, will find a wealth of detail in [this chapter]. The chapter describes Elaine, the novel’s protagonist, playing after school with the bully Cordelia and her cronies. It evokes the mystique and secrecy enveloping menstruation in 1950s Canada, including embarrassed silence, euphemism, pain, guilt, disgust, foreboding, mortification, melodrama, scorn, hyperbole, surreptitious behaviour, and intimations of contagion.” (Author).
1643. MARTIN, Shannon. “A Palette of Unconventional Symbolism: Color Imagery in Three Margaret Atwood Novels.” MA thesis. Western Kentucky University, 1995. 62 pp.
1644. MELLEY, Timothy Daniel. “Empire of Conspiracy: Paranoia and the Representation of Social Control in Post-World War II America.” PhD thesis. Cornell University, 1995. 223 pp. “Since the Second World War, influential North American fictions have frequently represented individuals who are nervous—or paranoid— about the ways in which organizations, technologies, and social systems might govern individual action and identity. Since ‘paranoid’ claims always question consensus definitions of reality, the extraordinary postwar interest in paranoia is a register of postmodern challenges to ‘the real.’…By examining Margaret At-wood’s ‘stalker’ narratives, Chapter 3 argues that a woman’s potentially paranoid fear of invisible male persecutors may powerfully illuminate social patterns of male violence, resisting the idea that such violence is individually motivated.” (Author). Atwood discussed along with works of Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. For more see DAI-A 56.04 (October 1995): 1357.
1645. MERIVALE, Patricia. “From ‘Bad News’ to ‘Good Bones’: Margaret Atwood’s Gendering of Art and Elegy.” Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Ed. Lorraine M. York. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1995. 252-270.
1646. MOHR, Dunja M. “Female Dystopia: Margaret
Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Ahornblätter 8 (1995): 62-80.
1647. ______. “Female Dystopia: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Angela Carter’s Heros and Villains.” MA thesis. Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1995.
1648. MONTELARO, Janet J. “Maternity and the Ideology of Sexual Difference in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6.3-4 (1995): 233-256.
1649. MOURIER, P. F. “But How Can One Be Canadian.” Esprit 11 (November 1995): 148-152. Margaret Atwood’s view of national identity.
1650. MYCAK, Sonia. “The Split Subject in the Novels of Margaret Atwood: A Reading in Terms of Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Theory.” PhD thesis. University of New South Wales, 1995. 391 pp. “This dissertation is a close reading of five of Margaret Atwood’s novels…with a view to exploring the divided self. As such it is a detailed theoretical investigation into the ways in which within The Edible Woman, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm and Cat’s Eye subjective identity is dislocated, alienated, splintered and split.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 57.01 (July 1996): 226.
1651. MYHAL, Bob. “Boundaries, Centres, and Circles: The Postmodern Geometry of The Handmaid’s Tale.” Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6.3-4 (1995): 213-231. “Gilead, the near-future dystopian society of…The Handmaid’s Tale, is founded on a carefully contrived but nevertheless distorted return to the extreme literal patriarchy of the Old Testament. In many ways Gilead marks a second coming of a highly restrictive, hierarchical, and rule-bound society. As an authoritarian society, Gilead is marked by rigid geographical, ideological, and personal boundaries. While the physical barriers are constant reminders of spatial limitations, the boundaries which shape Gilead society go beyond the purely geographical; indeed, perhaps the more impermeable and intimidating barriers are those which exist between individuals in the form of strict gender and class segregation.” (Author).
1653. NAVARRO, Emilia. “Women and War: Gendered Destruction.” ICLA ’91 Tokyo: The Force of Vision, II: Visions in History; Visions of the Other. Ed. Earl Miner et al. Tokyo: International Comparative Literature Association, 1995. 261-267. Bodily Harm compared to Marta Traba’s Conversación al sur.
1654. NEWMAN, J. “Imaginary War Fiction at Colorado State University.” Popular Culture in Libraries 3.1 (1995): 95-97. Describes CSU’s Imaginary Wars Collection that contains fiction by Margaret Atwood.
1655. ORAVITS, June Rapp. “Women as Generators of Knowledge: The Feminist Science Fiction of Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Marge Piercy’s, He, She and It.” MA thesis. University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1995. 43 pp.
1656. OSBORNE, Carol. “From Primals to Inner Children: Margaret Atwood’s Reflections on Therapy.” Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6.3-4 (1995): 181-195. “The article discusses Margaret Atwood’s reflections on therapy in her works. While direct commentary about psychologists or therapies appears infrequently in her novels, Atwood subtly incorporates aspects of contemporary psychotherapy in depicting her characters’ confrontations with the past. From the allusions in Surfacing to primal therapy, to her indirect criticism of the recovery movement in The Robber Bride, Atwood shows that not only has she been attuned to the impact that the psy-chotherapeutic industry has had on society but also that she has become increasingly critical of its claims and influence.” (Author).
1657. PALMER, Paulina. “Postmodern Trends in Contemporary Fiction: Margaret At-wood, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson.” Postmodern Subjects / Postmodern Texts. Ed. Jane Dowson and Steven Earnshaw. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 181-199.
1658. PARKER, Emma. “You Are What You Eat: The Politics of Eating in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.” Twentieth Century Literature 41.3 (Fall 1995): 349-368.
1659. PERRAKIS, Phyllis Sternberg. “The Female Gothic and the (M)Other in Atwood and Lessing.” Doris Lessing Newsletter 17.1 (1995): 1. Reference to Cat’s Eye.
1660. PRABHAKAR, M. “Language as ‘Subversive Weapon’ in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Canadian Literature Today. Ed. R. K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 1995. 166-173.
1661. ______. “Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: Blue-Print of Revolt.” Literary Half-Yearly 36.1 (1995): 70-79.
1662. ______. “Pen as a ‘Weapon’ in Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm.” Canadian Literature Today. Ed. R. K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 1995. 126-134.
1663. RAMAIYA, Nita. “Margaret Atwood’s ‘Machine. Gun. Nest’: A Critical Note.” Indian Journal of Canadian Studies 4 (1995): 121-125. Comment on the poem, included with the article.
1664. RAO, Vimala Rama. “A Violin in the Void: The Voice of the Narrator in Zamiatin’s We and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Canadian Literature Today. Ed. R. K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 1995. 148-153.
1665. RASCHKE, Deborah. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: False Borders and Subtle Subversions.” Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6.3-4 (1995): 257-268. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is, in part, a warning. Creating a nostalgia for pre-Gilead in which the narrator wistfully remembers the simple things of earlier times, Atwood’s tale, in romanticizing the past, masks the more pressing problem of Gilead as the present, not the future. But there is more to this text than de-evolution into some fundamentalist arcadia. Atwood’s text is also about language and how language systems formulate how people think.” (Author).
1666. REGIER, Ami M. “Collectibles, Fetishes, and Hybrid Objects: Object Discourses and Syncretic Female Identity in Recent Cross-Racial North American Women’s Representation.” PhD thesis. University of Southern California, 1995. 262 pp. This thesis documents “the emergence of a very contemporary aesthetics of collectibles, fetishes, and hybrid objects in recent North American cross-racial literary and visual production by women. Narratives of female collection practices configure female subjectivity through hybridity, excess, and accumulation, negating any singular notion of either personal or cultural identity. These texts revise the trope of the object, from its use to describe the position of women and minorities as objects of the investigations of sovereign, Western, implicitly male subjects, to an elaboration into a model of a more dialectical, material meeting point of self and other.” (Author). The thesis includes an analysis of Cat’s Eye and The Edible Women. For more see DAI-A 57.01 (July 1996): 209.
1667. ROSENBERG, Jerome H. Margaret Atwood. [Computer file]. 1 computer optical disc; 4 3/4 in. In Twayne’s women authors on CD-ROM.
1668. SCHALL, Birgitta. Von der Melancholie zur Trauer: Postmoderne Text- und Blickokonomien bei Margaret Atwood. Trier, Germany: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995.
1669. SHEPHERD, Valerie. “Narrative Survival: The Power of Personal Narration, Discussed Through the Personal Story-Telling of Fictional Characters, Particularly Those Created by Margaret Atwood.” Language and Communication 15.4 (October 1995): 355-373.
1670. SHOJANIA, Moti Gharib. “Descartes’ Doubting Daughters: The Care of the Self in the Fiction of Atwood, Laurence, and Munro.” PhD thesis. University of Manitoba, 1995. 404 pp. This dissertation looks at the way the Cartesian mind/body problem is implicated in the practices surrounding the care of the self as foregrounded in the fiction of Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro. For more see DAI-A 58.04 (October 1997): 1288.
1671. SMITH, James Gregory. “The Dostoevskyan Dialectic in Selected North American Literary Works.” PhD thesis. University of North Texas, 1995. 180 pp. “The Grand Inquisitor parable of The Brothers Karamazov is a blueprint for dystopian states delineated in anti-utopian fiction. Also, Dostoevsky’s parable constitutes a powerful dialectical struggle between polar opposites which are presented in the following twentieth-century dystopias: Zamiatin’s We, Bradbury’s Farenheit 451, Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The dialectic in the dystopian genre presents a give and take between the opposites of faith and doubt, liberty and slavery, and it often presents the individual of the anti-utopian state with a choice. When presented with the dialectic,
then, the individual is presented with the capacity to make a real choice; therefore, he is presented with a hope for salvation in the totalitarian dystopias of modern twentieth-century literature.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 56.12 (June 1996): 4776.
1672. SMYTH, Donna. “Unlocking Pandora’s Box: Female Desire in Three Works by Canadian Female Writers.” MA thesis. Acadia University, 1995.
1673. SNYDER, Karyn. “Reality in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry and the Dramatization of Reality in Her Novel The Handmaid’s Tale.” MA thesis. Drew University, 1995. 71 pp.
1674. SNYDER, Sharon Lynn. “The Work of Gender in Fictions of Science: A Study of Literary Amateurs in the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Richard Powers, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo.” PhD thesis. University of Michigan, 1995. 246 pp. “This study explores the reasons why current critical paradigms and reading lists of a contemporary literature of science emphasize masculinity as a standard trope of assessment. Because science and technology have been viewed as citadels of masculine endeavor, it comes as no surprise that literary criticism reflects these key suppositions as well. Rather than claim a mastery of complex scientific equations, theorems and disciplines, the novelists in this study more accurately use the novel as an interdisciplinary forum for analyzing the culture that surrounds scientific production. By exploring the figuration of gender and science within the fiction of four influential contemporary novelists—Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, Margaret At-wood and Richard Powers—a persistent story of women’s disruptions of professional fields begins to unfold. Through an analysis of the ways in which these writers deploy characters in relation to traditionally masculine domains of power and authority, the significance and situation of gender in contemporary fictions of science can be given the centrality it deserves.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 57.03 (September 1996): 1132.
1675. STAELS, Hilde. Margaret Atwood’s Novels: A Study of Narrative Discourse. Tübingen, Germany: Francke Verlag, 1995.
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