Thematics and Its Aftermath: A Meditation on Atwood’s Survival
Keywords:
Canadian literature, Canadian literary criticism, thematology, Atwood, MargaretAbstract
The claim that Margaret Atwood’s Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature delineates nationally distinctive features of Canadian literature is considered historically and analytically. Canadian and European reactions to Atwood’s universalist thematics are compared and a revised view of the text’s tone and genre is advanced.References
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