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English
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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale captivates readers with its disturbingly prescient vision of the future and haunting insights into the world as we know it. Religion--especially elements of the Christian faith--pervades every inch of the world as Atwood imagines it. Gilead's leaders use perverse forms of Christianity to sustain their authority and privilege, making understanding religion an integral part of understanding Gilead. In the face of...
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide-spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the Republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her!
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Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"How do people stay true to themselves in times of crisis? Where does anyone find the strength to stand up in the face of oppression? When will the worst side of human nature wither before the best? Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale has captivated readers for four decades and continues to stir popular conversation and controversary through the hit Hulu television series. The story has grown into a cautionary tale evoking fear and...
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Publisher
Insight Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Explore the terrifying world of Gilead with this behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy award-winning show The Handmaid's Tale. The hotly anticipated debut of The Handmaid's Tale - Hulu's groundbreaking show based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling novel - drew a wide audience and rave reviews. Now, this comprehensive book details the process of bringing the story to the small screen with exclusive cast and crew interviews, backstage and set photography,...
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Popular culture and philosophy volume 123
Publisher
Open Court
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertile women are conscripted to have sex and bear children to the most powerful men, all justified and rationalized by religious fundamentalism....
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Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts including: - Representation of women's roles, gender, sexuality...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"This guide deals with Atwood's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts is accompanied by likely exam questions as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts...
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Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
A futuristic dystopian...
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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
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In this text the author analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction. She argues that feminist-postmodern fiction's emphasis on the material historical situation often results in a blending and transforming of postmodern and realist aesthetic forms.