Titre : |
Women Writing in Question : Politics and Aesthetics in Margaret Atwood’s Novels |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Bouhadjar, Houda, Auteur ; SERIR Mortad, Ilhem, Auteur |
Editeur : |
Université tlemcen |
Année de publication : |
2018 |
Importance : |
264 p. |
Présentation : |
ill. |
Format : |
30 cm |
Accompagnement : |
cd |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Résumé : |
The present research studies three novels by Margaret Atwood which are Lady Oracle, The
Handmaid’s Tale and The Penelopiad as woman’s texts. It aims at showing how the aesthetic
and poetic specificities of her novels entail political messages. The three novels belong to
different generic categories and signal important stages in Atwood’s development as a woman
writer. This study attempts to analyse the aesthetic and intertextual aspects of the
aforementioned novels. It examines Atwood’s transformations of the three subgenres: the
gothic, the dystopia and the epic to uncover the political aims behind their female
appropriation by the writer. The three novels outvoice the writer’s political interests on two
levels: the thematic and the aesthetic. Their paratexts, metafictional nature through the use of
self-reflexive narrators and intertextual references all serve the writer’s aim of exposing
power politics and gender politics in both society and literature writing. In addition, the
centrality of the female figure as women writers allow the reader to witness women’s issues
of marginality, survival, body image and self realisation. The hypertextual nature of Atwood’s
texts serves their integration in the canon while it retains their singularity as expressions of the
human condition through a female subjectivity. |
Women Writing in Question : Politics and Aesthetics in Margaret Atwood’s Novels [texte imprimé] / Bouhadjar, Houda, Auteur ; SERIR Mortad, Ilhem, Auteur . - Université tlemcen, 2018 . - 264 p. : ill. ; 30 cm + cd. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
Résumé : |
The present research studies three novels by Margaret Atwood which are Lady Oracle, The
Handmaid’s Tale and The Penelopiad as woman’s texts. It aims at showing how the aesthetic
and poetic specificities of her novels entail political messages. The three novels belong to
different generic categories and signal important stages in Atwood’s development as a woman
writer. This study attempts to analyse the aesthetic and intertextual aspects of the
aforementioned novels. It examines Atwood’s transformations of the three subgenres: the
gothic, the dystopia and the epic to uncover the political aims behind their female
appropriation by the writer. The three novels outvoice the writer’s political interests on two
levels: the thematic and the aesthetic. Their paratexts, metafictional nature through the use of
self-reflexive narrators and intertextual references all serve the writer’s aim of exposing
power politics and gender politics in both society and literature writing. In addition, the
centrality of the female figure as women writers allow the reader to witness women’s issues
of marginality, survival, body image and self realisation. The hypertextual nature of Atwood’s
texts serves their integration in the canon while it retains their singularity as expressions of the
human condition through a female subjectivity. |
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