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Escaping from the Prison-House of Language and Digging for Meanings in Texts among Texts
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491_9783898216432
Margaret Atwoods novels are photographs of her characters lives: while words only ever describe her protagonists blurred visions of their pasts, their true stories are told in subtexts which run parallel or even contrary to the main story line and which depict the unseen, the buried, the untrue. Replete with intertextual references, her fiction illuminates that and why [w]hat isnt there has a presence, like the absence of light (The Blind Assassin). She plays with our conventional modes of perception to make us aware of the way we frame reality in our minds. Andrea Strolz discusses in her book the interrelation between metafictional and intertextual features in two of Atwoods novels that share many similarities, even though written in different decades. She examines how Atwood weaves intertextual references into her fiction, how she facilitates a readers recognition of the intertexts, and she shows that Atwoods narrator-protagonists also reflect on our age as one of intertextuality.
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