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Survival 

A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature 

by

Margaret Atwood

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

(1972)
A non fiction book by

Margaret Atwood

 

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims."

Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.
 
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1972 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B001688V7ETitle: Survival : a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Author(s): Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anansi
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May 1996 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0771008325Title: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Author(s): Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0-7710-0832-5 / 978-0-7710-0832-0 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
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1972 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0887846130Title: Survival: A thematic guide to Canadian literature
Author(s): Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0-88784-613-0 / 978-0-88784-613-7 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
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1972 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0887847137Title: Survival: A thematic guide to Canadian literature
Author(s): Margaret Eleanor Atwood
ISBN: 0-88784-713-7 / 978-0-88784-713-4 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
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Cover of ISBN: 0771008724Title: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Author(s): Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0-7710-0872-4 / 978-0-7710-0872-6 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
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