"That's what you get for being food": Margaret Atwood's Symbolic Cannibalism.

Author / Editor
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.

Title
"That's what you get for being food": Margaret Atwood's Symbolic Cannibalism.

Published
M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds. Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (Cambridge: Brewer, 2020.), pp. 129-42

Description
Comments on several "manifestation[s] of the medieval" in the writings of Margaret Atwood, focusing on her "response to the patriarchal standards and conventions of the courtly tradition." Identifies connections with Chaucer's motif of "enditynge," the open-endedness of his narratives, and the Petrarchan "concept of the 'devouring' male gaze" in TC.

Alternative Title
Medievalism in English Canadian Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde