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Revisiting the Monster Tale: Frankensteinian Tropes in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction
- Source :
- New Horizons in English Studies, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 125-142 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, 2020.
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Abstract
- Mary Shelley’s iconic Frankenstein is a pivotal work in the Western canon. Since its publication in 1818, the novel has been re-written and adapted many times. Shelley’s magnum opus sublimely evokes the postlapsarian condition of the fallen, while also capturing the imminent fear of technology, scientific progress and artificial procreation. The paper aims to explore the Frankenstein legacy and the development of Frankensteinian motifs in Atwood’s speculative fiction. More precisely, the paper focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The MaddAddam Trilogy – Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), MaddAddam (2013), and The Heart Goes Last (2015), analyzing how postmodern literature recycles and incorporates elements from Frankenstein to reflect (on) contemporary anxieties and to insist on the fluid discursivity of monstrosity.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:Language and Literature
Literature
Scientific progress
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Western canon
margaret atwood
Canadian literature
Art
canadian literature
Postmodern literature
Magnum opus
Trilogy
monstrosity
frankenstein
lcsh:P
speculative fiction
business
Monster
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 25438980
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- New Horizons in English Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7c33c4c1be7ded51ed8ff6e1f353d966