Examines the history and theory of films adapted from Canadian literature through the lens of gender studies. This study offers readings of works by well-known Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, and Michael Ondaatje, and by important Canadian filmmaker…
A critical overview of the work features the writings of Amin Malak, J. Brooks Bouson, Hilde Staels, and other scholars.
Philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale
Resisting dystopia -- Part I: but they were godless: A great darkness filled with echoes -- Dystopia from a woman's point of view -- Gestational totalitarianism -- The United States of Gilead? -- Part I: faith is only a word, embroidered: Inside Gilead's misogynist papers -- Ser…
Philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertil…
In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth …
"In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth…
Examining Margaret Atwood's work in the context of the history of the Bildungsroman, the author explores how the genre has been appropriated by women writers in the later 20th century. She demonstrates that Atwood's early work both engages with and works against the paradigms of…