Abstract
In this thesis I have studied, through textual analysis, several ways in which the Canadian author Margaret Atwood experiments with the short story form. The approaches I have chosen are, firstly, to analyse some of her stories using narrative theory with particular stress on how she experiments with voice and focalization. The second chapter addresses the issue of language, and how this fundamental aspect of form has been debated within her stories seen in the light of the feminist Hélène Cixous' ideas about women and language. In the third chapter I discuss her use of intertextual resources in a short story.