Negotiating with the dead a writer on writing

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Virago 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Into the labyrinth
  • Prologue
  • Orientation: who do you think you are? (What is "a writer," and how did I become one?)
  • Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double (Why there are always two)
  • Dedication: The great god pen (Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship?)
  • Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & co. (Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book?)
  • Communion: nobody to nobody (the eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between)
  • Descent: Negotiating with the dead (Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why?)