Atwood, Margaret (1939 -) | Lady Oracle
Lady Oracle
SYBIL KORFF VINCENT (ESSAY DATE 1983)
SOURCE: Vincent, Sybil Korff. "The Mirror and the Cameo: Margaret Atwood's Comic/Gothic Novel, Lady Oracle." In The Female Gothic, edited by Julian E. Fleenor, pp. 153-63. Montreal, Quebec, and London: Eden Press, 1983.
In the following essay, Vincent illustrates how, with Lady Oracle, Atwood invents "a new sub-genre—the comic/Gothic," that conforms to the sensibilities of the Female Gothic tradition without the expected elements of terror and resolution, and with an updated representation of the psyche of the contemporary woman.
Atwood has created a new sub-genre—the comic/Gothic—which more accurately depicts the psychological condition of the modern woman than does the traditional Gothic novel. In Lady Oracle, we find the Female Gothic novel explored from virtually every angle. It is not a true Gothic in that it...
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