Título: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Autor: Margaret Atwood
Sinopse: 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 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 assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Atwood's wide reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences, both in Canada and elsewhere. The lightness of her touch is offset by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Quebec, Ontario, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout her thirty years of writing, Atwood has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. Hew newest novel, The Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction. She is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include Alias Grace (1996), The Robber Bride (1994), Cat's Eye (1988), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), Surfacing (1972) and The Edible Woman (1970). Acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal lives and worldly problems of universal concern, Atwood's work has been published in more than thirty-five languages, including Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic, and Estonian.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, de Margaret Atwood, publicado pela editora Cambridge University Press, em 2002 e com 248 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Cambridge University Press
Páginas: 248
Ano: 2002
Edição: First Edition
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780521662604
ISBN13: 9780521662604
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Cambridge University Press apresentam uma leitura que combina rigor acadêmico com abordagens que exploram tanto temas históricos e sociais quanto avanços científicos e educacionais. O catálogo revela obras que vão desde análises profundas sobre sociedades antigas e críticas culturais até estudos contemporâneos em ciências exatas, humanas e linguísticas. O tom varia entre o didático e o analítico, com textos que contemplam desde narrativas históricas detalhadas até exposições metodológicas e teóricas, muitas vezes com linguagem acessível a estudantes e pesquisadores. Há uma presença marcante de obras que investigam processos sociais complexos, como dinâmicas de poder, transformações culturais e debates políticos, ao lado de publicações voltadas para aprendizado de idiomas e ciências aplicadas.
