Lady Oracle
E19700
Lady Oracle is a darkly comic novel by Margaret Atwood that follows a romance-ghostwriter-turned-poet as she fakes her own death and confronts questions of identity, authorship, and female autonomy.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| awardYear |
City of Toronto Book Award
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surface form:
1977 City of Toronto Book Award
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| centralTheme |
authorship
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autonomy ⓘ body image ⓘ escape and reinvention ⓘ female identity ⓘ mother-daughter relationships ⓘ performance of femininity ⓘ self-invention ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| followedBy | Life Before Man ⓘ |
| genre |
bildungsroman
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comic novel ⓘ dark comedy ⓘ feminist fiction ⓘ metafiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryAward | City of Toronto Book Award ⓘ |
| hasMetafictionalElement | novels-within-the-novel written by the protagonist ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780771008139 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Joan Foster ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic tone
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exploration of female autonomy ⓘ parody of gothic romance ⓘ use of multiple identities for the protagonist ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 345 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Margaret Atwood
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surface form:
Margaret Atwood bibliography
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| plotElement |
double life
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fake death ⓘ move to Italy after faking death ⓘ secret career as a romance-ghostwriter ⓘ |
| precededBy | Surfacing ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation |
poet
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romance novelist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| publisher | McClelland and Stewart ⓘ |
| setting |
Canada
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Italy ⓘ |
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