First published in 1985,The Handmaid'Tale is a representative work of Margaret Atwood.It has met with great favor around the world as a brilliant future novel in western literature.From the perspective of structur...First published in 1985,The Handmaid'Tale is a representative work of Margaret Atwood.It has met with great favor around the world as a brilliant future novel in western literature.From the perspective of structuralism,this paper will adopt Todor-ov’s notion of narrative grammar and analyze different characters and narrative approaches,then explain how Margaret Atwood con-structs a narrative model of "balance-unbalance-rebalance"in the novel,so as to get rid of the traditional narrative discourse of"balance-unbalance"in feminist literary works.展开更多
文摘First published in 1985,The Handmaid'Tale is a representative work of Margaret Atwood.It has met with great favor around the world as a brilliant future novel in western literature.From the perspective of structuralism,this paper will adopt Todor-ov’s notion of narrative grammar and analyze different characters and narrative approaches,then explain how Margaret Atwood con-structs a narrative model of "balance-unbalance-rebalance"in the novel,so as to get rid of the traditional narrative discourse of"balance-unbalance"in feminist literary works.
