Rewriting “That Story:” Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood and the Implications of the Word Love

This paper discusses ideal romantic love as it appears in Western literature and how women are portrayed in works containing idealistic romantic plots. It also explores how Canadian author Margaret Atwood rejects the traditional love plot in her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as well as in her book of poetry Power Politics and the poem “A Woman’s Issue.” The first section of this paper gives a bri...

To Bedlam and Past Way Back: Anne Sexton, her therapy tapes, and the meaning of privacy.

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum": Reproduction and Resistance in Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and the Alien Series

Automatic Analysis of Plot for Story Rewriting

A method for automatic plot analysis of narrative texts that uses components of both traditional symbolic analysis of natural language and statistical machine-learning is presented for the story rewriting task. In the story rewriting task, an exemplar story is read to the pupils and the pupils rewrite the story in their own words. This allows them to practice language skills such as spelling, d...

Term rewriting and all that