In Search of the Split Subject
Subtitle: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781550222692
Subjects: General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; New Age
Description: 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.