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Abstract
The main purpose of this dissertation is to study the intertextual relations in Margaret Atwood’s selected novels: Alias Grace, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Oryx and Crake. The study employs Julia Kristeva’s and charles Bazerman’s approaches in analysing intertextuality. It investigates the various strategies employed by Atwood in presenting intertextuality such as allusion, metafiction, and revision. It shows how Atwood internalizes her sources to create a network of intertextual relations. This study examines Atwood’s intertextual use of history, literature, folklore, and Bible. The intertextual readings of the selected novels are motivated by the criticism of various aspects of Victorian and contemporary society. The various types of intertextuality used by Atwood make a dialogue between the present and the past. They show that intertextuality produces various interpretations and reliable meanings. The study examines the thematic and technical relations between the selected texts and their sources. The dissertation concludes that intertextual relations are very often used in Atwood’s novels, criticising the ills of society which lead to the dilemma of modern man. Atwood’s intertextuality is deep, broad, and self-conscious.