Poetic Justice: Research on Margaret Atwood’s Ethical Thought is a book on Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s works authored by Professor Yuan Xia in 2025. It explores

Global Civilization Studies

GCS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.144-148.

Print ISSN: 3106-0978; Online ISSN: 3106-0986

Journal homepage: https://www.gcsjournal.com

DOI： https://doi.org/10.64058/gcs260111ryxpj

Review of Yuan Xia’s Poetic Justice: Research on Margaret Atwood’s Ethical Thought

Zhang Guoqing

Abstract: Poetic Justice: Research on Margaret Atwood’s Ethical Thought is a book on Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s works authored by Professor Yuan Xia in 2025. It explores the ethical thought in Margaret Atwood’s works by applying literary ethics theory. The book elaborates on Atwood’s deep thinking on ethnicity and nation, women and family, animal and human as well as science and environment respectively from the perspectives of ethics of responsibility, ethics of trust, ethics of care and ethics of survival, and argues that Atwood uses literary creation as a channel to express ethical ideas and the voice of justice.

Keywords: poetic justice; ethical thought; Margaret Atwood

Author Biography: Zhang, Guoqing, Ph.D. in Literature, Assistant Research Fellow at the Academy of Military Sciences. Research interests: British and American Literature. E-mail：zhangguoqing287@163.com.

标题：袁霞《诗性正义：玛格丽特·阿特伍德的伦理思想研究》述评

摘要：《诗性正义：玛格丽特·阿特伍德的伦理思想研究》是袁霞教授于2025年出版的关于加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德作品的又一研究专著。该书运用文学伦理学的理论从责任伦理、信任伦理、关怀伦理和生存伦理四个方面阐述阿特伍德作品中关于民族与国家、女性与家庭、动物与人类、科技与环境的伦理思想，指出阿特伍德将文学创作作为表达伦理思想和正义之声的渠道。

关键词：诗性正义；伦理思想；玛格丽特·阿特伍德

作者简介：张国庆，文学博士，军事科学院助理研究员，研究方向：英美文学。电子邮箱：zhangguoqing287@163.com。