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Negotiating with the dead

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing

By Margaret Atwood

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About the book

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 which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as...Show more

Literature: history and criticism

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ISBN

9781844080274

Publisher

Virago

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Negotiating with the dead

Format

Paperback

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