Margaret Atwood - Spotty-Handed Villainesses
From NESA website, find 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' from a speech given in various versions in 1994 here.
The Step-By-Step Guide to HSC English Module C: The Craft of Writing
Includes: What is Module C: The Craft of Writing? What will I study in Module C? How can I prepare for Module C?
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Margaret Atwood's Ideology
This short paper 'Messing with Atwood: Power, Reception and Writing Politics' discusses Atwood's ideology.
Podcast -
Margaret Atwood on Spotty-Handed Villainesses
In this Literary Arts podcast, Margaret Atwood discusses Spotty-Handed Villainesses and the problems of female bad behavior in the creation of literature.
Duration 51 mins.
Reconstructing Margaret Atwood's Female Protagonists
This academic article from World Literature Today journal discusses Atwood's female protagonists in her work, and focuses on how she creates situations in which women, burdened by the rules and in- equalities of their societies, discover that they must reconstruct braver, self-reliant personae in order to survive.
References
D'Netto, G. (2017). The step-by-step guide to HSC English Module C: The Craft of Writing. Art of Smart. https://artofsmart.com.au/english/hsc-craft-of-writing/
Goldblatt, P. F. (1999). Reconstructing Margaret Atwood's protagonists. World Literature Today, 73(2). 275-282. https://doi.org/10.2307/40154691
NSW Education Standards Authority. (2017). HSC English prescriptions 2019-2023; English Advanced Module C: The Craft of Writing; Margaret Atwood speech. https://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/assets/global/files/margaret-atwood-speech-2019-2023-english-prescriptions.pdf
Literary Arts Archive. (1994, February 2). Margaret Atwood [Audio podcast]. In Literary Arts. https://literary-arts.org/archive/margaret-atwood/
Macfarlane. K. E. (2006). Messing with Atwood: Power, reception and writing politics. Atlantis, 30(3). 63-64. https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/824/811
Penguin Random House. (2014, January 23). Live hangout on air with Alice Munro in conversation with Margaret Atwood [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/tFZXaeeMykc
Penguin Platform. (2019, November 22). How Margaret Atwood writes her books [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/gwW3I8SMnr8