EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood, Irony
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Margaret atwood"s bio: poet, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, born in ottawa in 1939, her father was an entomologist, her family spent a large part of her childhood in the. Game (1966), after which she has continued to write numerous collections of poetry and prose: the edible woman (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:888)(cid:891)(cid:524), (andmaid(cid:495)s tale (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:890)(cid:887)(cid:524), cat(cid:495)s eye (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:890)(cid:890)(cid:524), robber bride (1993), alias grace (1996), oryx and crake (2003) Context: the journals of susanna moodie: published in (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:888)(cid:888), with atwood(cid:495)s illustrations (cid:523)(cid:884)(cid:886)(cid:889)(cid:524, the book was later republished in 1997 with a new series of illustrations by artist. In the afterward to the journals, atwood writes: "what struck me most about. [moodie"s] personality was the way it reflects many of the obsessions still with us" (62): a symbol of canadian obsessions. From atwood"s afterword: (cid:498))f the national mental illness of the united states is magalomania, that of canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
