Why Does the Writer Write? : Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead

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• Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead (2002) based on her Empson Lectures made in April and May 2000 at the University of Cambridge, is the literary essay on her view of the meanings of writing. Asking "Why does the writer write?" "For whom?" and "Who are the readers?", she discusses and contemplates introspectively and half autobiographically the writer-and-reader relationship and the mystery of the creativity of the writer and the readers. She asserts that all the writers learn from the dead and the descent-to-the-Underworld. The writer and the reader have to deal with the precious layer of time. The treasures of the dead and the past will give us brilliant intelligence, knowledge and the truth untold. In this paper, I will try to sum up the ND and in so doing I also elucidate Atwood's insider view of writing and creativity which are symbolized by the darkness as the metaphor, her short fictions, "Murder in the Dark" and "The Page."

• 2006-03-25

著者

• 中島 恵子

  大阪成蹊大学 現代経営情報学部

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