Margaret Atwood’s Visions and Revisions of "The Wizard of Oz"

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Teresa Gibert
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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and Victor Fleming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939) play an important intertextual role in Margaret Atwood’s critical and fictional writings. Atwood has often been inspired by both versions of this modern fairy tale and has drawn attention to the main issues it raises (e.g. the transformative power of words, gendered power relationships, the connection between illusion and reality, the perception of the artist as a magician, and different notions of home). She has creatively explored and exploited themes, settings, visual motifs, allegorical content and characters (Dorothy, her three companions, the Wizard and the witches, especially Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West), subversively adapting her literary borrowings with a parodic twist and satirical intent. Parts of Life Before Man (1979) may be interpreted as a rewrite of a story defined by Atwood as “the great American witchcraft classic”.
玛格丽特·阿特伍德对《绿野仙踪》的设想与修改
l·弗兰克·鲍姆的《绿野仙踪》(1900)和维克多·弗莱明的电影《绿野仙踪》(1939)在玛格丽特·阿特伍德的评论和虚构作品中发挥了重要的互文作用。阿特伍德经常受到这个现代童话的两个版本的启发,并引起人们对它提出的主要问题的关注(例如,文字的变革力量,性别权力关系,幻觉与现实之间的联系,艺术家作为魔术师的感知,以及对家的不同概念)。她创造性地探索和利用了主题、背景、视觉主题、寓言内容和人物(多萝西,她的三个同伴,巫师和女巫,尤其是西方的好女巫和坏女巫葛琳达),颠覆性地改编了她的文学借用,以模仿和讽刺的意图。《人类出现之前的部分生活》(1979)可以被解读为阿特伍德定义为“伟大的美国巫术经典”的故事的重写。
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Journal of English Studies
Journal of English Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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