Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale has been both con- troversial and influential in the decades since its publication. The novel reached best-seller status in the mid-1980s and has continued to sell well in North America and abroad and has been translated into more than thirty-...
Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaids Taletransmediafranchisefeminist protestmeme cultureMargaret Atwoods most famous dystopian novel, The Handmaids Tale (1985), is one of those stories whose message seems to carry across the ages. The hyperreal patriarchy-as-terror-regime that The Handmaids Tale portrays has...
It is the sequel(续集) to the 79-year- old Canadian' s best-selling 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale."可知,The Handmaid's Tale是这位79岁的加拿大作者 1985年最畅销的小说。 30.B 细节 解题。 根 第四 的“Atwood has said the weakening of women's rights in some parts of the world led ...
Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," about an America taken over by Christian zealots who force women to serve as sex slaves and child bearers for a powerful elite, became a bestseller, an Emmy-winning TV series, and—in the era of #MeToo—a...
Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale has been both con- troversial and influential in the decades since its publication. The novel reached best-seller status in the mid-1980s and has continued to sell well in North America and abroad and has been translated into more than thirty-five...
Atwood may have become known to the broader public through the filming of her 1985 novel, The Story of the Servant, an oppressive vision of a society ruled by a patriarchal-bigot power elite. This “vision” has lost nothing of global relevance and political explosiveness. ...
In Atwood's novel, handmaids are essentially sex slaves, forced to bear children for infertile couples among the power elite in Gilead, the totalitarian dystopia the United States had become after being taken over by Christian zealots.
Discusses Canadian novelist, Margaret Atwood's book `The Handmaid's Tale,' which was published in 1985. Linda Hutcheon's view of irony; Comparison between Jonathan Swift's book `A Modest Proposal,' and Atwood's; Swift's style...
Atwood — a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, comic books and, as of late, tweets— in recent years has drawn a new round of acclaim for her bestselling 1985 novel of a dystopian future in which women are subjugated after an overthrow of the U.S. government. Some...
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include CAT'S EYE, THE ROBBER BRIDE, ALIAS GRACE, THE BLIND ASSASSIN and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, was followed in