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1. Nina Auerbach, Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts (New York, Columbia University Press, 1985), P Notes Notes to Chapter 1 1. Karla Hammond, 'An Interview with Margaret Atwood', The American Poetry Review, Vol. 8, No. 5 (September/October, 1979), p. 29. 2. Ibid., p. 29. 3. Joyce Carol Oates, 'Margaret Atwood: Poems and Poet', New York Times Book Review, 21 May 1978, pp. IS, 43-45. Notes to Chapter 2 1. Nina Auerbach, Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts (New York, Columbia University Press, 1985), p. 133. 2. Ibid., p. 138. 3. Ibid., p. 140. 4. Ibid., p. 164. 5. Sherrill Grace, Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood (Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1980), p. 59. 6. Robert Lecker, 'Janus Through the Looking Glass: Atwood's First Three Novels', The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), pp. 179-80. 7. Catherine McLay, 'The Dark Voyage: The Edible Woman as Romance', The Art of Margaret Arwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), p. 138. 8. Kim Chemin, The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (New York, Harper & Row, 1981), p. 71. 9. Linda Sandler, 'Interview with Margaret Atwood', The Malahat Review, 4 (January, 1977), p. 19. Notes to Chapter 3 1. Graeme Gibson, Eleven Canadian Novelists (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1973), p. 29. 2. Ibid., p. 22. 136 NOTES 137 3. Annis Pratt, 'Surfacing and the Rebirth Journey', The An ofMargaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), p. 151. 4. Ibid., p. 157. 5. Annis Pratt, Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981), p. 158. 6. Carol P. Christ, Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest (Boston, Beacon Press, 1980), p. 46. 7. Marie-Frans;oise Guedon, 'Surfacing: Amerindian Themes and Shamanism', Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System, eds Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir (Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1983), p. 91. 8. Jerome H. Rosenberg, Margaret Atwood (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1984), p. 122. 9. Barbara Hill Rigney, Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1978). 10. Sherrill E. Grace, 'Margaret Atwood and the Poetics of Duplicity', The An of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), p. 57. Notes to Chapter 4 1. Linda Sandler, 'Interview with Margaret Atwood', The Malahat Review, Vol. 4 (January, 1977), p. 19. 2. Jerome H. Rosenberg, Margaret Atwood (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1984), p. 116. 3. Ibid., p. 112. 4. Judith McCombs, 'Atwood's Haunted Sequences: The Circle Game, The Journals of Susanna Moodie', and Power Politics, The An of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), pp. 36-37. S. Clara Thomas, 'Lady Oracle: The Narrative of a Fool-Heroine', The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), p. 173. 6. Robert Lecker, 'Janus Through the Looking Glass: Atwood's First Three Novels', The An of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi Press, 1981), p. 203. Notes to Chapter 5 I. Linda Hutcheon, 'From Poetic to Narrative Structures: The Novels of Margaret Atwood', Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System, eds 138 NOTES Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir (Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1983), p. 29. 2. Frank Davey, Margaret Arwood: A Feminist Poetics (Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1984), p. 92. 3. Sherrill Grace, Violent Duality: A Study ofMargaret Atwood (Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1980), p. 135. Notes to Chapter 6 I. Sherrill Grace, Violent Duality: A Study ofMargaret Atwood (Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1980), p. 67. 2. Jerome H. Rosenberg, Margaret Atwood (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1984), p. 92. 3. Judith McCombs, 'Atwood's Fictive Portraits of the Artist: From Victim to Surfacer, From Oracle to Birth', Women's Studies, Vol. 12 (1986), pp. 69-88. 4. Margaret Atwood, 'Surviving the Critics', This Magazine is About Schools (1973), p. 33. Notes to Chapter 7 1. Sherrill Grace, Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood (Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1980), p. I. 2. Frank Davey, Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics (Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1984), p. 153. 3. Ibid., p. 1. 4. George Woodcock, 'Bashful but Bold: Notes on Margaret Atwood as Literary Critics', The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, eds Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson (Toronto, Anansi, 1981), p. 237. 5. Ibid., p. 241. 6. Frank Davey, op. cit., p. 163. 7. Philip Stratford, 'The uses of Ambiguity: Margaret Atwood and Hubert Aquin' Margaret Arwood: Language, Text, and System, eds Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir (Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1983), p. 113. 8. John Wilson Foster, 'The Poetry of Margaret Atwood', Canadian Literature, Vol. 74 (1977), p. 5. 9. Jerome H. Rosenberg, Margaret Arwood (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1984), p. so. 10. Karla Hammond, 'An Interview with Margaret Atwood', The American Poetry Review, Vol. 8, No. 5 (September/October, 1979), p. 29. Bibliography Primary Works (All references are to the following editions. Paperback books were used when possible.) Poetry Double Persephone (Toronto, Hawkshead Press, 1961). Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Pros~.~ ~ms (Toronto, Coach House Press, 1983). Power Politics (New York, Harper and Row, 1973). Procedures for Underground (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1970). Selected Poems (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1978). The Animals in That Country (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1968). The Circle Game (Toronto, Anansi, 1978). The Journals of Susanna Moodie (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1970). True Stories (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1981). Two-Headed Poems (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1978). You Are Happy (New York, Harper and Row, 1974). Novels and Short Stories Bluebeard's Egg (Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1983). Bodily Harm (New York, Bantam, 1983). Dancing Girls and Other Stories (New York, Bantam, 1985). Lady Oracle (New York, Avon, 1978). Life Before Man (New York, Warner, 1983). Surfacing (New York, Popular Library, 1976). The Edible Woman (New York, Popular Library, 1976). The Handmaid's Tale (Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1985). 139 140 BIBLIOGRAPHY Non-fiction Second Words (Toronto, Anansi, 1983). Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (Toronto, Anansi, 1972). Secondary Sources Auerbach, Nina, Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts (New York, Columbia University Press, 1985). Chernin, Kim, The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (New York, Harper and Row, 1981). Christ, Carol, Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest (Boston, Beacon Press, 1980). --,'Margaret Atwood: The Surfacing of Women's Spiritual Quest and Vision', Signs 2 (Winter, 1976), pp. 316--30. Davey, Frank, Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics (Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1984). Davidson, Arnold E. and Davidson, Cathy N. (eds), The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism (Toronto, Anansi, 1981). Foster, John Wilson, 'The Poetry of Margaret Atwood', Canadian Literature, 74 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 5-20. Gibson, Graeme, Eleven Canadian Novelists (Toronto, Anansi, 1973). Grace, Sherrill E., Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood (Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1980). Grace, Sherrill E. and Lorraine Weir (eds), Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System (Vancouver, University of British Columbua Press, 1983). Hammond, Karla, 'An Interview with Margaret Atwood', American Poetry Review, 8 (September/October, 1979), pp. 27- 29. Home, Alan J., 'Margaret Atwood: An Annotated Bibliography', The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, eds Robert Lecker and Jack David (Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1979 and 1980), Vols 1 and 2. BIBLIOGRAPHY 141 Juhasz, Suzanne, 'Renunciation Transformed, the Dickinson Heritage: Emily Dickinson and Margaret Atwood', Women's Studies, 12 (1986), pp. 251-70. Mandel, Eli, 'Atwood Gothic', The Malaluzt Review, 41 (January, 1977), pp. 165-74. Mathews, Robin, 'Survival and Struggle in Canadian Literature', This Magazine is About Schools, 6 (Winter, 1972-73), pp. 109- 24. McCombs, Judith, 'Atwood's Fictive Portraits of the Artist: From Victim to Surfacer, from Oracle to Birth', Women's Studies, 12 (1986), pp. 69-88. Oates, Joyce Carol, 'Margaret Atwood: Poems and Poet', New York Times Book Review, 21 (May 1978), pp. 15, 43-45. Pratt, Annis, Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981). Rigney, Barbara Hill, Lilith's Daughters: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1982). --,Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing and Atwood (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1978). Rosenberg, Jerome H., Margaret Atwood (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1984). Rubenstein, Roberta, 'Surfacing: Margaret Atwood's Journey to the Interior', Modern Fiction Studies 22 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 387-99. Sandler, Linda, 'Interview with Margaret Atwood', Malaluzt Review 41 (January, 1977), pp. 7-27. Index abortion 5, 36, 40, 45, 50, 56 'Camera' 25 'A Bus Along St. Clair; cameras, images of 25, 39, December' 59-60 41-2, 108 'A Descent Through the Campbell, Joseph 52 Carpet' 27 Camus, Albert 107 Alice in Wonderland 2, 6, 7, cannibalism, images of 20-l, 18,19-20,21,23,26,27-8, 33, 34, 109 29, 30, 37, 71, 93, 94 censorship 119, 134-5
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