Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Wisker, Gina

Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826426017)

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Format: Paperback
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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Wisker, Gina

Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

$29.95
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Wisker, Gina

Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

$29.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts including:
- Representation of women's roles, gender, sexuality and power
- Language, style and form
- Dystopias and genre fictions
- Power, control and religious fundamentalism.

Combining helpful guidance on reading Atwood's text with overviews of significant stylistic and thematic issues and an introduction to criticism, this is an ideal companion to reading and studying A Handmaid's Tale.

Author: Gina Wisker
ISBN-10: 0826426018
ISBN-13: 9780826426017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2010
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
By Gina Wisker
By Gina Wisker
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Gina Wisker is Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching and Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton where she teaches literature and manages educational development. Gina researches and writes on postcolonial, contemporary and genre fictions and specialises in contemporary women's writing.

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