Survival
A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
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When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provo
BOOK SYNOPSIS
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: “What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?” Her answer is “survival and victims.”
Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.
BOOK REVIEWS
Its a terrific book, enraging, aliveand I wish someone would give it to every continentalist in the Cabinet and every smug academic in all the cosy common rooms across this colonized land.
Christina Newman, Macleans
Survival is a fine example of what happens when a first-rate intelligence takes on a task usually carried out by literary morons.
George Woodcock, Vancouver Sun
the most important book that has come out of this country.
Phyllis Grosskurth, Globe and Mail
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0771008724
ISBN(13-digit): 9780771008726
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: C810.9
Library of Congress: oc2007102388
Book Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 320
Paper Weight (lb): 1
