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Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer On Writing by Atwood, Margaret is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer On Writing about?
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors that writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, and what roles they have chosen to play. And 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. 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.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Publisher
- Web Books Publishing
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781844080274
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (1,775 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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