Self, Society and Humanity: a Cultural Interpretation of Margaret Atwood's Novels

About This Novel

This book interprets several important works of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood from the perspective of cultural studies, explores the author's thoughts on society, the subject's mental state, and human survival conditions reflected in the novels, and expounds Atwood's thoughts on the inherent relationship between the social and cultural functions of literature and its humanistic expression. This book's study of Atwood's cultural and social thoughts includes a three-dimensional analysis of individual spirit, social existence and human condition. It is mainly based on French philosophical thought and combined with Canadian social and cultural reality to interpret the social and humanistic care in Atwood's novels, involving themes such as nation and country, power structure, psychoanalysis, society and ideology, scientific and technological humanities, posthumanism and other themes. By elaborating on the relationship between writing and society and the writer's responsibility, this book explains the ethics and social responsibility in Atwood's works. Atwood not only expresses great concern for the nature of human nature, but also expresses concern for Canada's nation, national identity, human spiritual conditions, and even environmental ethics, ecological crisis, and post-human future society. By exposing the social and political issues and cultural crises in reality, Atwood looks forward to the utopian ideal of the future and makes profound thoughts on human nature and culture. These reflect the author's thinking and implementation of the social function of literature.

You Might Also Like

Reborn Female General

Qianshan Tea Guest

1.3M9.6