Title: In search of the split subject : psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and the novels of Margaret Atwood /
Authors: Mycak, Sonia.
Publisher: ECW Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, Criticism and interpretation.; Split self in literature.; Moi divisé dans la littérature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Psychoanalysis and literature.; Phenomenology and literature.
Abstract: "Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's foremost contemporary writers. This study focuses upon her novels with the intent of examining a striking and recurrent aspect of her work; the divided self. It establishes a critical method for reading Atwood's work, borrowing freely from various psychoanalytic and phenomenological theorists in a close and detailed reading of six of the novels, including Atwood's most recent, The Robber Bride. An appendix serves to show how the remaining two could be best accounted for by other approaches, making the book a complete account of Atwood's novels to date."--Jacket.