scholarly journals Rewriting “That Story:” Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 562-573
Author(s):  
Burcu KAYIŞCI AKKOYUN
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Anne Sexton ◽  
Carol Ann Duffy

scholarly journals Breaking the Spell of the Male Gaze in Selected Women's Ekphrastic Poems.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (37) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Shaymaa Zuhair Al-Wattar
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Rita Dove ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Carol Ann Duffy ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Hunting Ground

For centuries art and poetry have been inspiring each other and the relation between word and image constantly fascinates the poets. The literary world has given poems that tackle artwork the name: ekphrasis. Ekphrasis represents a rich hunting ground for references, allusions, and inspiration for poets. However, ekphrasis is powerfully gendered that privileged male gaze. Traditionally, the male is given the strong position as the gazer, while the woman is locked in her predetermined role that of the beautiful, silent, submissive, gazed upon.             Women poets refuse to adhere to the gendered ekphrastic tradition and the under-representation of women in ekphrastic poetry. They strongly challenged the ekphrasis tradition modifying it to create a distinctive feminist ekphrasis. Their poetry changes the male-dominated ekphrsis tradition that for centuries has pervaded the Western cultures. The work of the poets Louise Bogan,Carol Ann Duffy, Rita Dove, and Margaret Atwood is an excellent example of women's ekphrastic poetry that defies the tradition of patriarchal male gaze in an attempt to break the spell of the male gaze.

The Forecast is Hurricane

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Sheila Murnaghan ◽  
Deborah H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Louise Gluck ◽  
Carol Ann Duffy ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Female Writers

Along with its heroine Penelope, the Odyssey presents an array of ‘other women’, female figures such as the Sirens, Calypso, and Circe, who impede Odysseus’ progress and stand as rivals to Penelope, but who cannot prevent Odysseus’ return to his much-prized wife. In this chapter, we consider the legacy of these figures, and especially of Circe, in poems by modern and contemporary female writers, including Margaret Atwood, H.D., Carol Ann Duffy, Louise Glück, Linda Pastan, and Augusta Davies Webster. While these authors may differ in their stances towards feminist politics and efforts to define a feminist poetics, their choice to speak through mythical figures who have considerable powers but are ultimately sidelined and abandoned yields searching, often sharply critical accounts of ancient and modern gender arrangements.

A Compact Embodiment of Pluralities and Denial of Origins: Atwood’s The Year of The Flood

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Rana Sağıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Near Future

Margaret Atwood, one of the most spectacular authors of postmodern movement, achieved to unite debatable and in demand critical points of 21st century such as science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism in the novel The Year of The Flood written in 2009. The novel could be regarded as an ecocritical manifesto and a dystopic mirror against today’s degenerated world, tending to a superficial base to keep the already order in use, by moving away from the fundamental solution of all humanity: nature. Although Atwood does not want her works to be called science fiction, it is obvious that science fiction plays an introductory role and gives the novel a ground explaining all ‘why’ questions of the novel. However, Atwood is not unjust while claiming that her works are not science fiction because of the inevitable rapid change of 21st century world becoming addicted to technology, especially Internet. It is easily observed by the reader that what she fictionalises throughout the novel is quite close to possibility, and the world may witness in the near future what she creates in the novel as science fiction. Additionally, postmodernism serves to the novel as the answerer of ‘how’ questions: How the world embraces pluralities, how heterogeneous social order is needed, and how impossible to run the world by dichotomies of patriarchal social order anymore. And lastly, ecocriticism gives the answers of ‘why’ questions of the novel: Why humanity is in chaos, why humanity has organized the world according to its own needs as if there were no living creatures apart from humanity. Therefore, The Year of The Flood meets the reader as a compact embodiment of science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism not only with its theme, but also with its narrative techniques.

Feminist Shakespeares: Adapting Shakespeare for a Modern Audience in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Etman
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Adaptation Theory ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Female Characterization

The Hogarth Shakespeare Project presents a way to view Shakespeare’s plays through a different lens. These books allow for a feminist reading of Shakespeare, looking at some of Shakespeare’s ill-treated female characters to construct a new idea of female characterization. Three of the plays adapted, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and The Taming of the Shrew, were adapted by female authors. By investigating how these plays are being adapted for a more contemporary audience, with modern conceptions of feminism and gender roles, we can gain insight as to how these concepts have changed since Shakespeare’s time. By looking at these modern adaptations, we can interrogate how modern audiences as a whole conceptualize and, potentially, idealize Shakespeare, as well as understanding the progression of treatment of women in contemporary culture since Shakespeare’s time. The novels addressed in this project are The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson, Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood, and Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler. The project concludes that, of the three, Vinegar Girl does the most effective job addressing the problematic aspects of its adapted play in a new way, distinguishing it from previous adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew. This project also investigates the role that adaptation theory plays in addressing Shakespeare adaptations, particularly the Hogarth Shakespeare Project.

La femme objet-de-consommation dans The Edible Woman de Margaret Atwood

Caliban ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Marcienne Rocard
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood
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