CHAPTER 6: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale: A 'Variety of Literary Utopias'.

The chapter comments on Northrop Frye's article, Varieties of Literary Utopias, in his book The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society, published in 1970, which tackled Margaret Atwood's book, The Handmaid's Tale. Significant points from Frye's sequence of arguments are enumerated and d...

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Publicado en:Selected Essays in English Literatures: British & Canadian pp. 117 - 131
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