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Atwood, Margaret

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Anansi, 2012

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Year of publication
2012
ISBN
9781770892521
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Atwood, Margaret
Publishers
Anansi
Edition
Reprint
Keyword
Canadian Literature
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.288p, bibliography index.