2003World Literature TodayRequires access

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

B. A. St. Andrews, Margaret Atwood

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Introduction 1. Orientation: who do you think you are? 2. Duplicity: the Jekyll hand, the Hyde hand, and the slippery double 3. Dedication: the great god Pen 4. Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto and Co 5. Communion: nobody to nobody 6. Descent: negotiating with the dead.

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Introduction 1. Orientation: who do you think you are? 2. Duplicity: the Jekyll hand, the Hyde hand, and the slippery double 3. Dedication: the great god Pen 4. Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto and Co 5. Communion: nobody to nobody 6. Descent: negotiating with the dead.

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Introduction 1. Orientation: who do you think you are? 2. Duplicity: the Jekyll hand, the Hyde hand, and the slippery double 3. Dedication: the great god Pen 4. Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto and Co 5. Communion: nobody to nobody 6. Descent: negotiating with the dead.

Key concepts: Negotiation, Art, Literature, Sociology, Social science

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