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020 _a978-0349006239
082 _aMISC
_bATW
100 _aAtwood, Margaret
245 0 _aOn Writers and Writing
260 _a.
_bVirago
_c2015
300 _a224p.
_c19.7 x 1.8 x 13.4 cm
_rPaperback
504 _aWhat 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 '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.
650 _aAdventure books
650 _aHistory and criticism
650 _aLiterary work
650 _aWestern Literature
942 _cBKS
999 _c1377
_d1377