Intertextuality In <the Blind Assassin> Of Atwood

Crowned as"the Queen of Canadian literature", the contemporary CanadianWriter Margaret Atwood is famous in the world because of her numerous highlyacclaimed works and experimental methods. Her novels have been considered as"Postmodernism concentrated expression of the contradictions". Atwood won the2000 Booker Prize for her tenth novel <The Blind Assassin>, which not onlyshows her extraordinary creative and her skilful handling of mixed narrativestrategies , but also is a signal of her new high level at writting. The term"intertextuality"was first coined by Julia Kristeva, who was literary critic andfeminist, based on Bakhtin's theory of"polyphony". Intertextuality means literatureis created from literature, Every literary work is a mater of convention and areworking of what is old. while intertextuality is always seen in < The BlindAssassin >,This thesis attempts to make a detailed analysis in order to outline itsintetrextual features and reveal how Atwood employs intertextuality skillfully .This article is composed of four chapters. First is an introduction to Atwood'slife , < The Blind Assassin > and the theory of intertextuality . Chapter One , ChapterTwo and Chapter Three are the backbone of the thesis , devoted to the specificanalysis of intertextuality in < The Blind Assassin > . Chapter One discussesintertextuality within < The Blind Assassin >, Atwood deepened the meaning of thenovel and provoked people to think with intertextuality. Chapter Two discussesintertextual references to the conventional literary, including Gothic fictions andfairy tales. Chapter Three discusses intertextuality with other works of Atwood,focusing on feminism and underground imagery. Chapter Four tries to showAtwood's subversion to the previous texts and creative writing practices.