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SurvivalMargaret Atwood

Survival

Margaret Atwood
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"'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: 'what have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?' Her answer is twofold: 'survival and victims.' Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty and impassioned chapters. From Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Newlove, from Godfrey to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives." The themes are: survival; nature the…

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11 editions · 3 languages
  • Other · English · 2013
    ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited · 9780369317070
  • Other · English · 2012
    House of Anansi Press · 328 pages · 9781770892521
  • Other · English · 2012
    House of Anansi Press · 9781770892538
  • Other · English · 2004
    M & S · 302 pages · 9780771008726
  • Other · English · 1996
    M & S · 287 pages · 9780771008320
  • Other · English · 1991
    Anansi · 9780887845222
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