Negotiating with the dead a writer on writing /

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at w...

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Main Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Physical Description: xxvii, 219 pages ; 21 cm.
Series: Empson lectures.
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