Doris Lessing And Sufi Equilibrium

Author : S. Fahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230375222

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Doris Lessing and Sufi Equilibrium by S. Fahim Pdf

The purpose of this study is to examine the rationale of Doris Lessing's development from Classical Realism to mysticism and forms of science fiction and to consider the unifying motifs that appear throughout her novels in her consistent search for Sufi Equilibrium. The four novels selected in this study represent significant stages in Lessing's work. Chapter one focuses on The Grass is Singing, which represents the author's early traditionally realistic writing, to show how far the preoccupations of Lessing's later novels find expression in this early work. Chapter two studies The Golden Notebook, which marks a turning point in formal structure in Lessing's canon and is selected as evidence of her interest in Sufism at that early stage. Chapter three concentrates on the study of The Memoirs of a Survivor, which has elicited a comparatively limited amount of criticism but which proves to be a major achievement when brought into line with Sufi methods of writing. Chapter four considers Lessing's science fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos', tracing sources from Oriental literature - a key which unlocks many areas of obscurity.

Author : Shadia S. Fahim
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312102933

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Doris Lessing by Shadia S. Fahim Pdf

This book charts the rationale of Doris Lessing's development in the context of Sufi as well as Western theories - a cultural hyhrid which proves useful in explaining many areas of misunderstanding in her canon. By tracing myriad sources from Oriental literature, this study uncovers many areas that have not yet been explored and unlocks the significance of the 'Mandala symbols' which are instructive in understanding Doris Lessing's later writings. The sections on Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta are particularly interesting as they provide unprecedented sources especially in relation to Oriental literature and its connection with the modern theory of the novel. The interaction between Eastern and Western approaches is thus illuminating in understanding Lessing's oeuvre and sheds light on many aspects of her writings. It provides a key to her extraordinary vision - one that incorporates more than one level and transcends cultural limitations.

Author : Muge Galin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791433846

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Between East and West by Muge Galin Pdf

Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.

Author : Kevin Brazil
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414449

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Doris Lessing and the Forming of History by Kevin Brazil Pdf

The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived. The 12 original chapters provide new readings of Lessing's work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical women's writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores how Lessing's writing can provide insight into some of the issues now shaping twenty-first century scholarship - including trauma, ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature - as they emerge as defining challenges to our own present moment in history.

Author : Ratna Raman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789390252558

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The Fiction of Doris Lessing by Ratna Raman Pdf

Doris Lessing (1919–2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her life work. Examining five decades of Lessing's unique life, narrative strategies, and the literary traditions that she drew upon and improvised, this book highlights her extraordinary significance as a writer of our times and for our times. Lessing's fiction and non-fiction provide a seminal understanding of the key issues that shaped the twentieth century. Autodidactic and keenly interested in the world around her, Lessing flagged the problems of racism in Africa; the inequity of class in modern England; the limitations of white, middle-class women's movements that overlooked the rights of women across race and class; the marginalisation of individuals; the horror of nuclear war and the need for disarmament; and the hazardous global expansion in the face of unrelenting technological progress. Further, she raised the concern of the atomisation of modern families, violence and the urgent need for alternate modes of viewing, voicing anxieties decades ahead of other contemporary writers. Making futuristic projections through innumerable genres of writing, such as realistic narratives, memoirs, diaries and science fiction, Lessing examines myth, psychoanalysis and Marxist perspectives, engaging with a gamut of experiences that have defined modernity, and sets up feminist blueprints that challenge atrophying patriarchal hegemonies.

Author : Alice Ridout,Susan Watkins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441192646

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Doris Lessing by Alice Ridout,Susan Watkins Pdf

Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction", and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.

Author : Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136593970

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Postcolonial African Writers by Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh Pdf

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000107689055

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Doris Lessing Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195169218

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf

A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.

Author : Vicki K. Janik,Del Ivan Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313016585

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Modern British Women Writers by Vicki K. Janik,Del Ivan Janik Pdf

The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780028671024

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A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "The Grass Is Singing" by Gale, Cengage Pdf

A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "The Grass Is Singing", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Jamal Malik,John Hinnells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134479825

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Sufism in the West by Jamal Malik,John Hinnells Pdf

With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism – intellectually as well as sociologically – may eventually become Islam itself due to its versatile potential. Although Sufism has always provoked considerable interest in the West, no volume has so far been written which discusses this aspect of Islam in terms of how it is practised in Western societies. Bringing together leading international authorities to survey the history of Islamic mysticism in North America and Europe, this book elaborates the ideas and institutions which organize Sufism and folk-religious practices. The chapters cover: the orders and movements their social base organization and institutionalization recruitment-patterns in new environments channels of disseminating ideas, such as ritual, charisma, and organization reasons for their popularity among certain social groups the nature of their affiliation with the countries of their origin. Providing a fascinating insight into how Sufism operates within different spheres of society, Sufism in the West is essential reading for students and academics with research interests in Islam, Islamic history and social anthropology.

Author : Radha Chakravarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317809951

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Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers by Radha Chakravarty Pdf

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Author : B. Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137076656

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Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction by B. Miller Pdf

Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world.

Author : Sabine Picout
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656127864

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Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook - an analysis by Sabine Picout Pdf

Presentation (Handout) from the year 2004 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: sehr gut, University of Innsbruck (Translationswissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Another important characteristic feature which slips into Lessing’s novel repeatedly is the new way of treating psychological problems. Anna undergoes repeatedly psychotherapy and sees her psychotherapist nicknamed “Mother Sugar“. In the course of her treatment the interpretation of her dreams is very important which shows us the influence of Freud and especially of C.G. Jung with his theory of psychoanalysis. A central theme in The Golden Notebook are Anna’s doubts about the meaningfulness of literature. Structure, time scheme and interpretation (chart of the action): Doris Lessing wanted to leave behind the form of the conventional realistic novel. Therefore she chose such an extraordinary construction. The skeleton is the short novel “Free Women” which could stand for itself and is some kind of frame story which is divided into five sections by four notebooks. The notebooks are told by Anna Wulf the main figure of Free Women (each notebook focusing on a different kind of experience). The Black Notebook is about Anna’s time in South Africa and about her best seller “Frontiers of War”.