Research Of Margaret Atwood’s Works About Rewriting Classic

Canadian author Margaret Atwood,who has read the classics since childhood,searches for stories in dialogue with the past to write new classics for new times.With her challenging creativity,the rewritten texts have extended the gaps in classic literature,speaking the unspeakable secrets of the classics,revealing multiple truths,and demonstrating the power of literature.Rather than blindly following the stream of postmodern deconstruction,Atwood uses her dual identity as a reader and writer to dig deeper into the classic texts and connect them to contemporary society in the process of deconstructing and reconstructing them.From The Penelopiad to Hag-Seed,we can see that Atwood has been consciously exploring on the road of rewriting the classics.She has always based on the classic text,delved into the aesthetic construction of contemporary rewriting,innovated in the writing strategy,and jumped out of the limits of self.From challenging the classics to paying tribute to them,Atwood breaks the opposition between rewritten and classical texts and achieves the achievement of transcendence and inheritance at the same time.At the same time,Atwood continues to develop her own characteristics in rewriting,and many of her rewritten works are characterized by the resurrection of the dead to reveal the truth,texts focusing on various prison imagery,and post-modern carnival dissolving traditional authority.All of this means that Atwood is maturing on the road to rewriting.In the face of the intrusion and impact of consumer culture on classic literature,Atwood has actively participated in publishers’ rewriting projects,grasping the cultural logic of the market and turning challenges into opportunities.Both The Penelopiad and Hag-Seed are successful works of Atwood’s rewriting projects,reflecting the new perception of the classics in the current era,and achieving two-way success in the dialogue with classic texts.Behind Margaret Atwood’s rewriting of the classics is a discovery of individual subjectivity,an imagining of Canadian literature,and a contemplation of the fluid nature of the literary canon.Her practice of rewriting reveals her love of literature,her strong humanistic feelings,and her efforts to bring Canadian literature to the world,reflecting the responsibility of the times borne by a world-class writer.