Negotiating with the Dead (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Autobiography and literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Twenty-first century, Poetry or poets, Writing, Books, Novelists, Canada or Canadians, Reading, Mortality, Underworld or Hades
Margaret Atwood’s novels typically have titles that, though obscure at first, ultimately are revealed as statements of the thematic core of each narrative. Only after one has finished reading The Edible Woman (1969), Cat’s Eye (1988), or The Blind Assassin (2000) does the full significance of each title become clear. Similarly, while Atwood indicates the subject matter of Negotiating with the Dead in the subtitle of the book, A Writer on Writing, she does not explain the meaning of the title until the end of the book. Then, just as in her fiction,...
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