Seeing The Parody In Atwood's Novel

Crowned as "the Queen of Canadian literature", the contemporary Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is renowned for her numerous highly acclaimed works ranging from poetry, fiction to criticism.The term "intertextuality" was first coined by Julia Kristeva, based on Bakhtin's theory of "polyphony", this article covered five of Atwood' s novels from the angle of parody, As one of the matter of intertextuality, parody embodies the background texts although it was debased before, Atwood employs parody skillfully in her own work in the position of feminism and nationalism, such as Homer epic, fairy tale and the Gothic novel. In these works, Atwood gives the discourse to female in order to deconstruct binary opposition.This article is composed of three chapters. an introduction to Atwood's life and works, while parody is always seen in her works. Chapter one discusses five of Atwood's works, which are The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, The Bluebeard's Egg and Penelopial. We see how the author parodies Gothic fiction, classical texts and fairy tales. Chapter two discusses why the author employs parody. Chapter three discusses the third way from the position of binary by using of transfiguration.concludes the whole article and give the meaning to decentralization.