Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  2321. HENGEN, Shannon. “Dialogic Time and The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 144-148.

  2322. HERMANSSON, Casie Elizabeth. “Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story.” PhD thesis. University of Toronto, 1998. 286 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1999) and as .pdf file: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/NQ35183.pdf. Incorporates some aspects of The Robber Bride. For more see DAI-A 60.01 (July 1999): 139.

  2323. HOWELLS, Coral Ann. “Dislocations in Dystopia.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 9-18.

  2324. ______. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Longman, 1998. 96 pp. Study notes.

  2325. ______. “Morning in the Burned House: At Home in the Wilderness.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. [135]-145. Reprinted from The Contact and the Culmination: Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek. Ed. Marc Delrez and Bé-nédicte Ledent. Liège: Liege Language and Literature, 1997. 69-78.

  2326. ______. “Questions of Survival in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale / Le Conte de la servante: The Power Game. Ed. Jean-Michel Lacroix and Jacques Leclaire. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998. 35-48.

  2327. HULLEY, Kathleen. “Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen: The Feminine Voice.” Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 17-22. More on Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and Atwood’s Surfacing. Reprinted from Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 1 (1975): 73-78.

  2328. HUNT, Lynn. “‘No Longer an Evenly Flowing River’: Time, History, and the Novel.” American Historical Review 103.5 (1998): 1517-1521. Views on At-wood’s thoughts about historical fiction.

  2329. HUNTER, Lynette. “‘That Will Never Do’: Public History and Private Memory in Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 19-29.

  2330. INGERSOLL, Earl G. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a Self-Subverting Text.” Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature / Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne. Ed. Marguiere Benedicte. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 103-109. “The book problematizes the narrative desire by offering the reader a first-person narrative that suddenly stops with a historical note in a seemingly separate text. In essence, Atwood plays a narrative joke on her readers. This technique was reminiscent of George Orwell’s Principle of Newspeak at the end of his novel, 1984.” (Journal).

  2331. JACOB, Susan. “Woman, Ideology, Resistance: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Third World Criticism.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. 26-43.

  2332. JAMES, William Closson. Locations of the Sacred: Essays on Religion, Literature, and Canadian Culture. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 1998. See especially Chapter 8: “Sacred Passages: Native Symbols in Atwood and Engel.” 171-187. Study of Surfacing and Engel’s Bear.

  2333. JARRETT, Mary. “The Presentation of Montreal in Mavis Gallant’s ‘Between Zero and One’ and of Toronto in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études cana-diennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 93-101. Reprinted from Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 29 (1990): 173-181.

  2334. JONG, Nicole de. “Mirror Images in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” Nora: Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies 6.2 (1998): 97-107. “Cat’s Eye is one of the many novels by Margaret Atwood which brings contemporary discussions concerning female subjectivity into focus. By concentrating on the complex mirror imagery in the novel, this article examines the way the female protagonist liberates herself from the gaze of her girlfriend, Cordelia. Referring to the work of Simone de

  Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray, the many mirrors in Cat’s Eye can be categorized as either flat or convex, each denoting a different type of perceiving the female self. Whereas flat mirrors frustrate the protagonist’s attempts at defining herself, convex mirrors help her to come to a satisfactory definition.” (Author).

  2335. KOHLKE, M. L. “Imperfect Consummations: Aspects of Place and Time in the Short Stories of Anaïs Nin, Angela Carter, and Margaret Atwood.” PhD thesis. University of Swansea (Wales), 1998.

  2336. KRUK, Laurie. “Until We Are Like You: Reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Statuary.’” Newsletter of the Margaret Atwood Society 21 (1998): 8, 15-16.

  2337. KURJATTO-RENARD, Patrycja. “‘I Am Like a Room Where Things Once Happened and Now Nothing Does’: Houses and Interiors in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 88-102.

  2338. LACROIX, Jean-Michel, [ed.]. Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). Talence [France]: Association fran-çaise d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. Individual entries indexed in this section.

  2339. LACROIX, Jean-Michel, and Jacques LECLAIRE, eds. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale / Le Conte de la servante: The Power Game. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998. Individual articles are indexed in this section.

  2340. LADOUSSE, Gillian. “Some Aspects of the Theme of Metamorphosis in At-wood’s Poetry.” Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 23-29. Reprinted from Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 2 (1976): 71-77.

  2341. LAMOUREUX, Cheryl Michelle Mary. “History as Hysterectomy: The Writing of Women’s History in The Handmaid’s Tale and Ana Historic.” MA thesis. University of Manitoba, 1998. 73 pp. How the two novels represent phallogocentrism as a shaping force in Western society, most importantly in its history and language. For more see MAI 37.02 (April 1999): 437.

  2342. LANGDON, Sandra. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood. London: Letts Educational, 1998. 76 pp.

  2343. LECLAIRE, Jacques. “De la dystopie à la métafiction dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale / Le Conte de la servante: The Power Game. Ed. Jean-Michel Lacroix and Jacques Leclaire. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998. 63-78.

  2344. ______. “Féminisme et dystopie dans The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret At-wood.” Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 71-80. Reprinted from Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 21 (1986): 299-308.

  2345. ______. “La metropole: Image du pouvoir dans les romans de Margaret Atwood.” Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 103-110. Reprinted from Études canadi-ennes / Canadian Studies 30 (1991): 89-93.

  2346. LEE, So-Hee. “A Study of The Handmaid’s Tale Focused on the Representation of Sexuality and Intimacy.” Studies in Modern Fiction 5.2 (1998): 183-204. In Korean; abstract in English.

  2347. LIU, Cecilia H. C. “Folding the Time-Space Continuum: Atwood’s Cat’s Eye as Chronotopic Bildungsroman.” Canadian Culture and Literature and a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Totosy-de-Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. Edmonton: University of Alberta and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, 1998. 237-249.

  2348. LLANTADA DÍAZ, María Francisca. “Language in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” Estudios de la mujer en el ámbito de los países de habla inglesa, III. Ed. Ana Antón-Pacheco et al. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1998. 107-116.
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br />   2349. LORRE, Christine. “The Interpolation of Narrative Sequences in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 175-186.

  2350. LOUVEL, Liliane. “Les Secrets de la servante.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 131-143.

  2351. MacFARLANE, Karen. “‘Fence-Climbing Sisterhood’: Reading the ‘Escaped Nun’ Intertext of The Handmaid’s Tale.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y/ 8 (1998): 181-188.

  2352. ______. “The Politics of Self Narration: Contemporary Canadian Women Writers, Feminist Theory and Metafictional Strategies.” PhD thesis. McGill University, 1998. 289 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (2000) and in .pdf format: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0016/NQ44504.pdf. Emphasis on Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale. For more see DAI-A 60.12 (June 2000): 4436.

  2353. MacKEY, Melodie Anne. “The Female Hero.” MA thesis. California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1998. 76 pp. “This thesis demonstrates the difference between the male monomyth as described by Joseph Campbell and the emerging female monomyth as put forward by Carol Christ, Annis Pratt, Maureen Murdock, and other feminist writers and critics….I applied my female monomyth model to two novels by women authors. In this comparison, I determined why one woman character’s rebirth quest fails, as in The Awakening by Kate Chopin, and why another woman character’s rebirth quest succeeds, as in Surfacing by Margaret At-wood. From this, I concluded that in order to complete their journeys, women characters must follow a quest pattern formulated specifically for female heroes based on their unique experiences as women.” (Author). For more see MAI 36.05 (October 1988): 1287.

  2354. MARI, Catherine. “Temps et dystopie dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 8 (1998): 189-194.

  2355. MARTYNIUK, Irene. “The Role of Autobiography in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” Harrod Lecture Series 16 (1997-1998): 79-97. This is a reprint of a lecture delivered 29 April 1998 at Fitchburg State College, MA.

  2356. MASSOURA, Kiriaki. “‘My Body ... a Desert Island ... Your Body … Marred by War’: The Female Body as Space and the Male Body as Time in Margaret At-wood’s ‘Circe/Mud’ Poems.” Manuscript: Graduate Journal in English 3.1 (1998): 5-23. Published by the University of Manchester.

  2357. McLEAN, Barbara. “Women Writing, Women Teaching: Speculating on Domestic Space.” Canadian Woman Studies / Les cahiers de la femme 17.4 (1998): 94-97. Includes discussion of The Handmaid’s Tale.

  2358. Freedman. Ed. Kathleen L. Komar and Ross Shideler. Columbia: Camden Freed-man. Ed. Kathleen L. Komar and Ross Shideler. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. 204-217.

  2359. MOHR, Dunja. “The Split Self in Margaret Atwood’s Female Dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale.” Selbst und Andere/s oder Von Begegnungen und Grenzziehun-gen. Ed. Christina Strobel and Doris Eibl. Augsburg: Wiβneer, 1998. 110-123.

  2360. MORIN-OLLIER, Priscilla. “The Moral Government of God in Gilead.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabil-liet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 15-26.

  2361. MOSS, Laura Frances Errington. “‘An Infinity of Alternate Realities’: Reconfiguring Realism in Postcolonial Theory and Fiction.” PhD Queen’s University, 1998. 198 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1999) and as .pdf file: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/NQ31944.pdf. Chapter Four looks at realism in Canada through an exploration of Alias Grace and Alice Munro’s story “A Wilderness Station.” For more see DAI-A 59.10 (April 1999): 3814.

  2362. MUNDT, Hannelore. “Anpassung und Widerstand bei Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood und Christa Wolf.” Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 53.3 (1998): 191-211. In German. English title: “Adaptation and Resistance in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Christa Wolf.” Includes discussion of Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor, Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and Wolf’s Sommerstück.

  2363. MURRAY, Jennifer. “‘The End of the World’: Desire and Desolation in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Grave of the Famous Poet.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 31 (1998): 23-35.

  2364. ______. La vérité en question: Discours réflexif et subversion dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 51-59.

  2365. MYCAK, Sonia. “Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood: A New Critical Approach.” Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale / Le Conte de la servante: The Power Game. Ed. Jean-Michel Lacroix and Jacques Le-claire. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998. 127-145.

  2366. NADER, Elizabeth. “Walking Among Shadows.” MA thesis. Northern Michigan University, 1998. 72 pp. Chiefly short stories influenced by Atwood and Alice Munro.

  2367. NORRIS, Pamela. The Story of Eve. London: Picador, 1998. Draws on Atwood to show how ideas of the Biblical Eve have expressed themselves in literature.

  2368. OLTARZEWSKA, Jagna. “Telling Stories: Resistance to World Reduction in The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 30-39.

  2369. ______. “Trauma and Testimony: The Status of Witnessing in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 8 (1998): 195-202.

  2370. OMHOVÈRE, Claire. “The Handmaid’s Tale ou l’emprise des signes.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabil-liet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 89-102.

  2371. OSBORNE, Brian S. “Some Thoughts on Landscape: Is It a Noun, a Metaphor, or a Verb?” Canadian Social Studies 32.3 (1998): 93-97. Cat’s Eye used to make the case.

  2372. OSBORNE, Carol Dale. “Visiting the Past: Narratives of Recovery.” PhD thesis. University of Virginia, 1998. 221 pp. Analyses novels of Atwood, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Dennis McFarland and Jane Smiley in context of re Barbara Kingsolver, Dennis McFarland, and Jane Smiley in context of recovered memory syndrome. For more see DAI-A 59.07 (January 1999): 2508.

  2373. PAINTER, Rebecca Miriam. “Attending to Evil: Fiction, Apperception, and the Growth of Consciousness.” PhD thesis. New York University, 1998. 275 pp. Explores the subtleties and apperception of evil—by characters and readers—in novels by Iris Murdoch, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Walker. Focuses on Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride. For more see DAI-A 59.05 (November 1998): 1563.

  2374. PAOLI, Marie-Lise. “Fécondité et stérilité dans The Handmaid’s Tale: La terre gaste de Galaad.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret At-wood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 53-70.

  2375. PAULS, Leina Marie. “[Not] Wanted in the Canon: A Study of the Impact of Literary Criticism upon Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage.” MA thesis. University of Arkansas– Fayetteville, 1998. 89 pp.

  2376. PAVLISH, Catherine Ann. “The Uncertainty Principle and Certain Uncertain Writers: Melville, Dickinson, Woolf, Atwood and Others.” PhD thesis. University of North Dakota, 1998. 589 pp. In 1927, Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle demonstrated that in any experiment, the observer always has some kind of effect upon the thing being observed; thus, Heisenberg complicated the boundaries that had been drawn between scientific objectivity and personal subjectivity, a position that has led to a more uncertain knowledge of the world. Within this context, part of this study examines the sexual uncertainty (and sex role uncertainty) in some contemporary heterosexual women in Atwood’s works, among others. For more see DAI-A 59.05 (November 1998): 1586.

  2377. PEEPRE, Mari. “Searching for Zenia: Time, Space, and the Mystery of The Robber Bride.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 13.2 (1998): 317-326.

  2378. PESSO-MIQUEL, Catherine. “See[ing] the World in Gasps: La Vision tronquée dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s
Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 103-122.

  2379. PHELPS, Henry C. “Atwood’s Edible Woman and Surfacing.” Explicator 55.2 (1998): 112-114.

  2380. PORTER-LADOUSSE, Gillian. “Time Past, Time Dystopian, Time Future.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 81-88.

  2381. POTTS, Donna. “The White Goddess Displaced: National/Sexual Parallels in At-wood’s The Robber Bride.” Literature of Region and Nation: Proceedings of the 6th International Literature of Region and Nation Conference University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Saint John New Brunswick, Canada, 2-7 August 1996. Vol. 2. Ed. Winnifred M. Bogaards. Saint John: University of New Brunswick in Saint John, 1998. 230-238.

  2382. POULAIN, Alexandra. “‘Blessed Be the Silent’: La communication dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret At-wood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 161-174.

  2383. PROVENCAL, Vernon. “‘Byzantine in the Extreme’: Plato’s Republic in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 19.1 (1998): 53-76.

  2384. RAMAIYA, Nita. “A Female Non-Being Emerging into a Being: A Feminist Approach to The Journals of Susanna Moodie.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. [114]-125.

  2385. RAO, Eleonora. “Language, Sexuality, Displacement: Surfacing, Bluebeard’s Egg, Life Before Man.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. [44]-55.