[litp] In Other Wor(l)ds: Margaret Atwood’s Short Fiction and Poetry (Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur) - Einzelansicht

Discussing Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s collection of tales Stone Mattress (2014), Coral Ann Howells argues that it “is a veritable sampler of genre fiction revisited, with one crime story, two vampire stories, three interconnected fantasy stories, two Gothic horror stories, and a final dystopia.” Apart from the genres listed in this quote, Atwood frequently writes speculative fiction and uses folk elements such as fables and fairy tales. In this course, we will explore how some of Atwood’s short fiction and poetry moves away from realism and blends and undermines the everyday and the uncanny, the real and the imagined, covering a variety of themes such as critique of society, gender, the environment, science, and art, to name but a few.

A selection of texts will be provided via Moodle.

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