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2 février 2018
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Marta Dvorak, « ‘What's in a Name?’: Readers as both Pawns and Partners, or Margaret Atwood’s Strategy of Control », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.uz49yq
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Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. (The Handmaid’s Tale, 144). The narrator’s voice in this passage of The Handmaid’s Tale, although couched in the rhetoric of denial, echoes the author’s voice, notably in a critical essay entitled «An End to Audience?» published five years earlier: By «political» I mean having to do with power: who’s got it, who wants it, how it operates; in a ...