Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

Notes and Commentaries

Volume 03, Number 2 (1978)

Atwood and Laurence: Poet and Novelist

  • Linda Hutcheon
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1978-06-06

Abstract

Poets who write novels have a different hermeneutic relationship to both their readers and their narrative structures than do most novelists. Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel are examples of this phenomenon.