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Margaret Atwood is an author whose grim vision of possible futures for this world and humanity's place in it has informed her recent fiction. In novels that leave a space for hope, the Canadian author conveys'at times with laugh-out-loud humour'the perils and possibilities of life in a world that is both entirely strange yet eerily familiar. During this seminar, we will read four of Atwood's dystopic novels, The Handmaid's Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy. As we read the primary texts, we will explore two main methodological approaches: narratology and Bakhtinian discourse analysis. We will begin by reading The Handmaid's Tale, so I ask you to get a copy before the beginning of the semester. 

 

A few copies of all the novels will be available at Payot Rive-Gauche. Make sure that you buy the correct editions.

The Handmaid's Tale, ed. Vintage, ISBN-9781784874872
Oryx and Crake, ed. Virago, ISBN-9780349004068
The Year of the Flood, ed. Virago, ISBN-9780349004075
MaddAddam, ed. Virago, ISBN-9781844087877