198-207) and index.Ītwood, Margaret, 1939- Views on authorship. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood is a compilation of six lectures she gave at the University of Cambridge. Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & Co Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing Taschenbuch 9. US 18.00 Based on her Empson Lectures for 2000, Negotiating with the Dead is Margaret Atwoods most recent collection of essays it is also her most personal. Duplicity: The jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing Cambridge University Press. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature."-BOOK JACKET. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?" "Margaret Atwood's wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. "Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.Ĭambridge, U.K. This book title, Negotiating with the Dead (A Writer on Writing), ISBN: 9781400032600, by Margaret Atwood, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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