Language of Margaret Atwood

Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK. She specialises in cognitive stylistics, re-reading and contemporary fiction.

• Chapter 1. The language of Margaret Atwood.- Part I: Misdirection.- Chapter 2. Burying and misdirection in The Blind Assassin.- Chapter 3. Memories and reconstrual in Alias Grace.- Part II: Ambient storms.- Chapter 4. Cold revenge and the stylistics of ambience in Stone Mattress.- Chapter 5. Theatrical illusion and the performance of fictional minds in Hag-Seed.- Part III: Doubling and splitting.- Chapter 6. Double consciousness and speculative worlds in Oryx and Crake.-Chapter 7. Voiceover narration and the split self in The Handmaid’s Tale TV series.- Chapter 8. Future readers.