With reference to Atwood’s essays and critical writings, Darko Suvin’s Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, and Wolfgang Iser’s The Act of Reading, this project explores the value of reading speculative fiction and details how Atwood has constructed the fictional, yet plausible, possible future world of her trilogy by extrapolating our current scientific capabilities, environmental challenges, and political configurations to their logical conclusions.
Detailing Atwood’s own specifications as to why these texts should be categorised as works of speculative fiction, the thesis examines how this literary genre, and Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy in particular, is uniquely capable of encouraging readers to interrogate critically the socio-economic, environmental, and ethical problems to which she, and the contemporary reader, bear witness in the present technological age.
Science fiction - History and criticism SubjectĢ020 Date 2020 Type Thesis Type Masters Type MA Identifier Identifier vital:38467 Description This thesis is focussed on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy: Oryx and Crake (2003) The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013). Speculative fiction - History and criticism Subject Title Chasing Eden: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and the value of reading in a technological age CreatorĪtwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy Subject
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