[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture are those stories it takes seriously—the ones that are thought to be a key to its identity.

More recently Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995). Davidson.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. While Margaret Atwood is best known for her work as a novelist Margaret Atwood is also a poet having publiMargaret Atwoodd fifteen books of poetry to date.