Margaret Atwood Criticism: Further Reading

Alvarez, Kate. Reviews of Surfacing and Good Bones. TLS: Times Literary Supplement (1 July 1994): 22. (Negative assessment of Good Bones.)

Banerjee, Chinmoy. "Atwood's Time: Hiding Art in Cat's Eye." Modern Fiction Studies 36, No. 4 (Winter 1990): 513-22. (Discusses the various narrative voices Atwood uses in Cat's Eye.)

Bayley, John. "Dry Eyes." London Review of Books 13, No. 23 (5 December 1991): 20. (Compares the stories in Atwood's Wilderness Tips favorably to the works of Nadine Gordimer and Elizabeth Bowen.)

Beaver, Harold. Review of Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976–1986, by Margaret Atwood. The New York Times Book Review (3 April 1988): 12. (Praises Atwood's insights into women's issues in Selected Poems II.)

Berne, Suzanne. "Watch Your Back." Belles Lettres 7, No. 1 (Fall 1991): 43. (Positive review of Wilderness Tips noting Atwood's "wry [and] disdainful" authorial voice.)

Birch, Dinah. "Post Feminism." The London Review of Books II, No. 2 (19 January 1989): 3, 5. (Explores Atwood's Cat's Eye and Interlunar as expressions of the author's "personal postfeminism" and praises Atwood's insights about the nature of suffering.)

Clute, John. "Embracing the Wilderness." TLS No. 4393 (12 June 1987): 626. (Review of Bluebird's Egg and Other Stories and The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English which Atwood edited with Robert Weaver.)

Cooke, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood: A Biography. Toronto: ECW, 1998, 378 p. (Biography of Atwood.)

Crace, Jim. "Off-Cuts." TLS (23 March 1984): 311. (Negative review of Murder in the Dark.)

Deery, June. "Science for Feminists: Margaret Atwood's Body of Knowledge." Twentieth Century Literature 43, No. 4 (Winter 1997): 470–86. (Analyzes the role of science in Atwood's work.)

Deveson, Richard. "Lashing Out." New Statesman 107, No. 2764 (9 March 1984): 25. (Mixed review of Murder in the Dark.)

Givner, Jessie. "Mirror Images in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle." Studies in Canadian Literature 14, No. 1 (1989): 139-46. (Analyzes Atwood's displacement of conventional literary imagery in Lady Oracle.)

Givner, Jessie. "Names, Faces, and Signatures in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale." Canadian Literature, No. 133 (Summer 1992): 56-75. (Discusses Atwood's use of autobiographical elements in the two novels.)

Greene, Gayle. "Survival Strategies." The Women's Review of Books IX, No. 4 (January 1992): 6-7. (Praises Wilderness Tips for combining "the power of [Atwood's] fiction with the complexity of her poetry.")

Keefe, Joan Trodden. Review of Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976–1986, by Margaret Atwood. World Literature Today 63, No. 1 (Winter 1989): 103-04. (Praises Selected Poems II and calls attention to the literary significance of Atwood's career.)

Kildahl, Karen A. "Margaret Atwood." Critical Survey of Short Fiction, edited by Frank N. Magill, pp. 13–19. Salem Press, 1987. (Discusses defining characteristics of Atwood's short fiction.)

Makay, Shena. "The Painter's Revenges." The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4479 (3 February 1989): 113. (Applauds Atwood's fidelity to childhood experience in Cat's Eye and calls the book "probably Atwood's finest novel to date.")

McCombs, Judith, ed. Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1988, 306 p. (Collection of critical essays on Atwood's work, including her short fiction.)

McCombs, Judith and Carole L. Palmer. Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1991, 735 p. (Primary and secondary bibliography.)

Miner, Madonne. "'Trust Me': Reading the Romance Plot in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Twentieth Century Literature 37, No. 2 (Summer 1991): 148-68. (Examines Atwood's treatment of heterosexual love in The Handmaid's Tale.)

Morris, Mary. "The Art of Fiction CXXI: Margaret Atwood." Paris Review 32, No. 117 (Winter 1990): 69–88. (Atwood discusses the major themes of her work as well as her creative process.)

Nicholson, Colin, ed. Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity: New Critical Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 261 p. (Compiles recent critical essays on Atwood's fiction and poetry.)

Nischik, Reingard M. "Speech Act Theory, Speech Acts, and the Analysis of Fiction." Modern Language Review 88, No. 2 (April 1993): 298–306. (Analyzes Atwood's utilization of language.)

Norfolk, Lawrence W. "Do They Travel?" The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4507 (24 August 1989): 903. (Praises Interlunar and analyzes Atwood's use of dark and light imagery.)

Richards, Beth. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Prairie Schooner 67, No. 4 (Winter 1993): 8–12. (Brief interview.)

Roraback, Dick. Review of Good Bones & Simple Murders. Los Angeles Times Book Review 62 (19 February 1995): 6. (Laudatory review.)

Rosenberg, Jerome H. Margaret Atwood. Boston: Twayne, 1984, 184 p. (Critical survey of Atwood's works.)

Russell, Brandon. "Eavesdropping." TLS (17 August 1984). (Review of Dancing Girls.)

St. Andrews, B. A. "Requiem for an Age." Belles Lettres 5, No. 3 (Spring 1990): 9. (Calls Atwood "a master at distilling essences and delineating profiles of our age" and praises Cat's Eye as "a massive and moving novel.")

Thurman, Judith. "Books: When You Wish Upon a Star." The New Yorker LXV, No. 15 (29 May 1989): 108-10. (Finds Atwood's depiction of childhood in Cat's Eye to be truthful and compelling, but objects to the "bullying" tone of the book's prose.)

Towers, Robert. "Mystery Women." The New York Review of Books XXXVI, No. 7 (27 April 1989): 50-2. (Praises Atwood's attention to detail in Cat's Eye.)

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