Table of Contents

Introduction - Reingard M. Nischik
Lions, Tigers, and Pussycats: Margaret Atwood (Auto-) Biographically - Nathalie Cooke
Celebrity, or a Disneyland of the Soul:Margaret Atwood and the Media - Susanne Becker
Canonizing Atwood: Her Impact on Teaching in the U.S., Canada, and Europe - Caroline Rosenthal
On the Border: Margaret Atwood's Novels - Alice Palumbo
Margaret Atwood's Short Fiction - Charlotte Sturgess
Margaret Atwood's Poetry 1966-1995 - Lothar Hoennighausen
"A Certain Frivolty": Margaret Atwood's Literary Criticism - Walter Pache
Transgressing Genre: A Generic Approach to Margaret Atwood's Novels - Coral Ann Howells
Alias Atwood: Narrative Games and Gender Politics - Barbara Rigney
Margaret Atwood: A Canadian Nationalist - Paul Goetsch
Margaret Atwood, the Land, and Ecology - Ronald Hatch
Recycling Culture: Kitsch, Camp, and Trash in Margaret Atwood's Fiction - Lorna Irvine
Mythological Intertexts in Atwood's Works - Sharon Wilson
Re-Constructions of Reality in Margaret Atwood's Literature: A Constructionists Approach - Klaus Peter Mueller
Challenging the Reader: An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's Creative Technique in her First Published Novel - Helmut Reichenbaecher
Creativity: An Interview with Margaret Atwood - Gabriele Metzler
Working with Margaret Atwood - Ellen Seligman
Charted and Uncharted Courses - Nan Talese
On Loyalty and Love - Liz Calder
Reminiscing - Helmut Frielinghaus
On Translating Margaret Atwood - Brigitte Walitzek
The J-Stroke - Arnulf Conradi

About the Author

Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and chair of American literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

Reviews

Winner of the Best Book Award of the Margaret Atwood Society, 1999/2000.
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Represents the best collective Atwood criticism that I have seen for years.
*NEWSLETTER OF THE MARGARET ATWOOD SOCIETY*

Presents a superb overview of Canada's most famous living author.
*CHOICE*

An impressive international list of contributors...
*STUDIES IN THE NOVEL*

Provides a positive example of cross-national scholarly collaboration and includes the perspective of the literary publishing world.
*ZEITSCHRIFT FUER KANADA-STUDIEN*

Succeeds in presenting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Atwood's works and her critical contexts.
*CANADIAN LITERATURE*

An extremely valuable research tool and a magnificent hommage to an equally magnificent writer.
*ETUDES CANADIENNES/CANADIAN STUDIES*

An excellent volume...an important enrichment of Atwood scholarship.
*ANGLISTIK*

... serious critical work from some of the most substantial contemporary Atwood scholars.
*EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES*

An invaluable resource, well organised and beautifully presented.
*BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANADIAN STUDIES*

[T]he volume [has] that special something, not least in the particular and in this context exclusively positive kind of hybridity that makes it the ideal medium for the representation of Margaret Atwood in all her facets. The unique structure of the volume and its high scholarly standards along with the simultaneous inclusion of very personal glimpses at the life and work of the author make [it] a book with enough breadth and depth to stand out among the countless books on Atwood.
*GERMANISCH-ROMANISCHE MONATSSCHRIFT*