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Atwood, Margaret, (1939-)

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Negotiating with the dead : = a writer on writing /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Negotiating with the dead :/ Margaret Atwood.
Reminder of title:	a writer on writing /
Author:	Atwood, Margaret,
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ;Cambridge University Press, : 2002.,
Description:	xxvii, 219 p. :ill ;21 cm.
Subject:	Authorship. -
ISBN:	0521662605

Negotiating with the dead : = a writer on writing /
Atwood, Margaret,1939-

Negotiating with the dead :a writer on writing /Margaret Atwood. - Cambridge, U.K. ;Cambridge University Press,2002. - xxvii, 219 p. :ill ;21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-207) and index.

Introduction : Into the labyrinth --

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide reference to other writers is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of Western literature.

ISBN: 0521662605

LCCN: 2001025135Subjects--Personal Names:

982431
Atwood, Margaret,
1939-Subjects--Topical Terms:

529425
Authorship.

LC Class. No.: PR9199.3.A8 / .N43 2002

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520 # $a What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide reference to other writers is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of Western literature.
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