Margaret Atwood, The Door

Sue Sorensen (Canadian Mennonite University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2007

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

Resources

After publishing nine major books of poetry in the first 25 years of her career, Margaret Atwood’s poetic output slowed dramatically, with just two new collections (aside from selected works) published since the 1980s: Morning in the Burned House (1995) and The Door (2007). Atwood’s large audience is now principally attentive to her fiction, so while her early books of poetry were thoroughly appraised, especially in Atwood’s home nation of Canada, Morning in the Burned House and The Door received less critical attention. These books, however, demonstrate an intriguing shift in emphasis. Her early “soundings of female consciousness were forensic and archetype-obsessed” (Starnino), and critics …

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Citation: Sorensen, Sue. "The Door". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 September 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22992, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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