Margaret Atwood - The Power of Ideas
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- First televised Dec. 13, 1999.
In this interview, acclaimed author of The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood discusses her life, literary fame, and offers insights into her novels.
The Power of Ideas features deep, candid interviews with luminaries from across all disciplines of science, the humanities, and government. Originally airing from 1997 to 2002, the show was underwritten by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the Oklahoma Humanities Council and distributed by American Public Television. The Power of Ideas was filmed on the campus of the University of Oklahoma and hosted by Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Executive Director of World Literature Today and Neustadt Professor of Comparative Literature.
Despite their historical significance, these interviews have been unavailable to the general public for over a decade, and many of the master tapes are beginning to disintegrate. OU Outreach Film & Media Services has embarked on a project to digitize and preserve this outstanding program. We hope it will serve as a valuable resource for future scholars and researchers.
Special thanks to the University of Oklahoma Western History Collection and Dr. Davis-Undiano for their assistance.
Transcription and captioning by Outreach Video & Media Services.
I love how she always starts her answers with her 'okay' and then she proceeds by analytically disecting it.
She is always direct and honest and true to herself and the result is books that speak to your heart!
"You never know why do anything, really. It's not a plan. You know, you don't think no I'm gonna to do this. What you usually really think is I feel strongly inclined to do this but it's a really stupid idea and that's what you end up doing. You always end up doing the things that you think are probably a bad idea. Why are they a bad idea? Because they're hard. They're difficult. So you think why don't I just do something easy? Well the fact is that the easy things aren't very appealing." - Margaret Atwood.
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Is it just me or she is very similar to Meryl Streep? (love her btw ♥️)
Margaret Atwood shows us truth through critical thinking. I wish I had a tiny percentage of her talent.
Intellectual genius!
So wonderful!! Thanks for preserving these gems!!
Just imagine going to Margaret’s home library. I bet her whole house is covered in books. I’d love to see what she reads and enjoys.
Great interview. Such an intelligent, interesting woman on our planet. Love her
I find her ideas fascinating.
Amazing, interesting, intelligent woman! ♡
"Taught them Franz Kafka" oh _cheeky_
"I think that readers, as fans, are a different kind of person" - I wonder if that's still true today? I guess readers still won't tear at clothing, but I'm pretty sure they cheer and get... _Internally_ hysterical. Starstruck.
She's not just a woman; she's a genius.
"a non-alive condition" thank you for the terrifying thought that there might be one other than "dead"
That part made me laugh.
Oh - it's interesting that she considers poetry "structured". I've been studying her work (on my own, no lessons) and it's not like Edgar Allen Poe or anything. There's a lot of free verse, and were it not for this interview I'd have continued seeing it as very pretty, prosey notes about things she felt strongly.
This is certainly a sign that I need some kind of study guide, going forward. I feel pretty foolish, thinking I was qualified to teach poetry (even to myself).
Her poetry is structured by way of each line following logically to the next. While no, there is no "proper" classical structure to it in terms of meter, rhyme, or measure, it is certainly disciplined and thoroughly accessible. You read her work and it is immediately available in it's meaning and concepts, without being shallow mind you.
I think by structure she means the rhythm and patterns of language. So even though there isn't a strict metrical structure, there are still structures within and between the words which give them a certain cadence that's very different from prose. Lyric poetry is condensed and much more about economy of language.
If n when you happen to be the very first person to come up with sth new, that's when you stand a good chance.....
She really steers the interview
He would not let her talk and it’s driving me crazy
What does she mean by "Fitzgerald" or "Hemingway" myth?
That their success so earlier in their career probably drove them a bit crazy
She looks like a living drawing.
Excellent interviewer
I feel like he didn't even read the book or do his research before this interview.
+KatMorganKirby obviously he did!! She was just being trite and aggressive for NO REASON!! "Use your head!" what a nut!
He certainly came across as ill-prepared and frankly, a bit dumb. Thankfully Margaret has had a lot of experience handling interviewers of all kinds.
Haha, she always rephrases the interviewer's questions.
Because the interviewer is not very good, imo.
The interviewer is very good
this guy does NOT listen to what is being said...he's so busy being-the--interviewer he doesn't hear things that are funny, interrupts just as she's getting to the point of the story, etc. fortunately Atwood is very patient. maybe he's learned to do better since.
We can only hope. I thought he was terrible.
this guy is so obnoxious...talking as she is still answering a question...interrupting all the time. clearly his mother didn't teach him any manners.
weak soundtrack