The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity as a writer, cultural critic, and media star has given new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion, with essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics, provides the most comprehensive and up to date account of Atwood's novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Chapters cover biographical, textual and contextual issues, emphasising Atwood's Canadianness and her international appeal as an imaginative writer. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, and the essays consider themes, language, humour and narrative techniques.