Scholarship and criticism on Margaret Atwood
Articles
ABC
- "The Handmaid's Tale as a Scrabble Game." Essays on Canadian Writing v 48 (1992-93) pp. 89-96.
- "Alice in Disneyland: Criticism as Commodity in The Handmaid's Tale." Essays on Canadian Writing v 41 (Summer 1990) pp 74-92.
- "No Shadows Without Light. " Feminist Utopias. Lincoln & London : U of Nebraska P, 1989. 133-58. Comparison of The Handmaid's Tale and L'Eugelionne (1976) by Louky Bersianik.
- "Women and Revolution in Dystopian Fiction : Nadine Gordimer's July's People and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Selected Essays : International Conference on Representing Revolution 1989. Ed. John Michael Grafton. Carrollton, Ga. : West Georgia College, 1991. 115-27.
- "The Handmaid's Tale: Novel and Film" British Journal of Canadian Studies v 8 n 1 (1993): pp 71-84.
- "Wells, Orwell, and Atwood : (EPI)Logic and Eu/Utopia." Extrapolation v33, n4 (Winter 1992) : 333-45.
- "Utopias of/f Language in Contemporary Feminist Literary Dystopias", Utopian Studies (2000). Examines Lisa Tuttle's "The Cure" (1984); Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue and The Judas Rose, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
DEF
- "Science for Feminists: Margaret Atwood's Body of Knowledge", Twentieth Century Literature, v.43, n.4 (1997), pp. 440-486.
- "Margaret Atwood: 'Respectability Can Kill You Very Quickly.'" Progressive Volume 56 (March 1992): pages 30-33.
- "The Value/s of Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale and the Anti-Utopian Tradition." Dalhousie Review v 69 (Fall 1989) pp 373-382.
- "The Calculus of Love and Nightmare: The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction v 38 (Winter 1997): pp 83-95.
- "The Turn From Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages 141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits, and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home
- "'Basic Victim Positions' and the Women in Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'", Atlantis v.15, n.2 (Spring 1990), pp. 50-58.
- "Margaret Atwood: Colonisation and Responsibility", pp. 171-193 in Free Women: Ethics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).
GHI
- "Metafora en lo alto de los cielos, metaforas al fondo de la calle: El uso de la metafora en Life Before Man, de Margaret Atwood", Epos: Revista de Filologia v. 6 (1990): pp.511-520.
- "Elements of the Gothic in the Novels of Margaret Atwood." MA thesis, University of Alberta, 1990.
- "My (m)Other, My Self: Strategies for Subversion in Atwood and Hebert." Essays on Canadian Writing v. 26 (Summer 1983): pp. 13-44.
- "Revolution as Bodily Fiction: Thea Astley and Margaret Atwood." Antipodes v.4, n.2 (Winter 1990): pp. 109-114.
- "The Integration of Gender into the Teaching of Classical Social Theory: Help from The Handmaid's Tale", Teaching Sociology, v.18 (Jan. 1990): pp. 69-73.
- "Fairy-Tale Morphology in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing", Mosaic, v.23, n.4 (Fall 1990): pp. 51-65.
- "Sorcery to Spirituality in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, Month, v.23, n.9-10 (Sept. - Oct. 1990): pp. 382-387.
- "The World As It Will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale." Modern Language Studies v.20, n.2 (Spring 1990) pp 39-49.
- "A Humanist Warning: The Handmaid's Tale", New Humanist, v.106, n.4 (#105), Dec. 1990, p.13.
- "Science Fiction in the Feminine: The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood (1996) pp 127-147, 176-177.
- "From Poetic to Narrative Structures: The Novels of Margaret Atwood." in Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System, edited by Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983. pp. 17-31.
- "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Echoes of Orwell." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts v 5, n 4 (1993) pp 64-72.
- "The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." in Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts edited by Allienne R. Becker. Westport: Greenwood, 1996, pp. 39-47.
- "Survival in Margaret Atwood's Novel Oryx and Crake", Extrapolation v. 45, n.2 (2004), pp. 162-175.
JKL
- "Woman, Ideology, Resistance: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Third World Criticism." Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. Eds. Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells. 1998. pp. 26-43.
- "Special Delivery: Twenty-First-Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale." In Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: pp. 221-244.
- "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17; reprinted in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 147-154.
- "Feminist Science Fiction: The Alternative Worlds of Piercy, Elgin and Atwood." Journal of American Studies of Turkey, v. 4 (1996): pp. 69-77. Available at: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number4/Kormali.html .
- "Feminisme et dystopie dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood." Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies v 21 (1986) t. 1 pp 299-308.
MNO
- "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112 (1987): 9-16.
- "Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v 17 (1990) pp 25-40. (on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale).
- "Back to the Future: Margaret Atwood's Anti-Utopian Vision in The Handmaid's Tale." Englisch Amerikanische Studien v 1 (March 1987) pp 139-148.
PQR
- "Interpreting The Handmaid's Tale: Offred's Name and 'The Arnolfini Marriage'." Fear of the Open Heart (1989) pp 175-196.
- "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood." New York Times 12 February 1986: C11.
- "Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale" in Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms ed. by Kathryn Van Spanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, 1988, pp. 101-112.
- "Pandora's Box and Female Survival: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm." Journal of Canadian Studies v. 20 (Spring 1985), p. 120-135.
STU
- "The Handmaid's Tale." Kenyon Review v. ns8 (1986), pp. 120-4.
- "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia", University of Toronto Quarterly, v.61, n.2 (1991), pp. 269-279.
VWXYZ
- "The Human Spirit as Machine: Views of M. Atwood." The Christian Century v. 103 (December 3, 1986), p. 1083. (Discussion of The Handmaid's Tale)
Study guides
- "Study Guide: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale."
Books
- Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1980.
- Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir
- Editors. Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
- Margaret Atwood's Power: Mirrors, Reflections and Images in Select Fiction and Poetry. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1993.
- Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
- Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
- Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, editors.
- Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
- Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells.
- Editors. Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. 1998.
- The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.
- "Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics." Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993.
Special issues
- Literature, Interpretation, Theory
- "Margaret Atwood Issue." volume 6 number 3/4 (1995)