Doris Lessing And The Forming Of History

Author : Kevin Brazil
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007369133

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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Pdf

The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061862496

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Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. "Here I still am," says Doris Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.

Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635570960

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Free Woman by Lara Feigel Pdf

A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022777499

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Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing Pdf

Follows on from Under my skin (26 I/S). Life from 1950 onwards of the renowned author.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007455577

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The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing Pdf

The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000854176

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Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement by David Seamon Pdf

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology. These entries discuss such topics as body-subject, the lived body, place ballets, environmental serendipity, homeworlds, and the pedagogy of place and placemaking. The volume's chapters are broken into three parts. Part I includes four entries that consider what phenomenology offers studies of place and placemaking. These chapters illustrate the theoretical and practical value of phenomenological concepts like lifeworld, natural attitude, and bodily actions in place. Part II incorporates five chapters that aim to understand place and lived emplacement phenomenologically. Topics covered include environmental situatedness, architectural phenomenology, environmental serendipity, and the value of phenomenology for a pedagogy of place and placemaking. Part III presents a number of explications of real-world places and place experience, drawing on examples from photography (André Kertész’s Meudon), television (Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under), film (John Sayles’ Limbo and Sunshine State), and imaginative literature (Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City and Louis Bromfield’s The World We Live in). Seamon is a major figure in environment-behavior research, particularly as that work has applied value for design professionals. This volume will be of interest to geographers, environmental psychologists, architects, planners, policymakers, and other researchers and practitioners concerned with place, place experience, place meaning, and place making.

Author : Mona Knapp
Publisher : New York : Frederick Ungar Publishing Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003941502

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Doris Lessing by Mona Knapp Pdf

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061760334

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The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Pdf

“[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly…. a stirring novel”—San Francisco Chronicle Frances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table—her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street. It’s London in the 1960s and everything is being challenged and changed. But what is being tolerated? Comrade Johnny delivers political tirades, then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Johnny’s mother funds all but finds she can embrace only one lost little girl—Sylvia, who leaves for a South African village dying of AIDS. These are the people dreaming the Sixties into being and who, on the morning after, woke to find they were the ones taxed with cleaning up and making good.

Author : Aaron Matz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108839273

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The Novel and the Problem of New Life by Aaron Matz Pdf

An expansive study of the novel's moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770890220

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing Pdf

In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9780472084333

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Doris Lessing by Gayle Greene Pdf

An original and compelling appraisal of this important international literary figure

Author : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137486509

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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins Pdf

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Author : Emma Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350353800

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Life Writing and the End of Empire by Emma Parker Pdf

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories and returned to the metropole after the Second World War. Formal decolonisation meant that these authors were unable to 'go home' to their colonial childhoods, a historical juncture with profound consequences for how they wrote and recorded their own lives. Moving beyond previous discussions of imperial and colonial nostalgia, Life Writing and the End of Empire is the first critical study of white memoirists and autobiographers who rewrote their memories of empire across numerous life narratives. By focussing on these processual homecomings, Emma Parker's study asks what it means to be 'at home' in memories of empire, whether in the settler farms of Southern Rhodesia, or amidst the neon lights of Shanghai's International Settlement. These discussions trace the legacies of empire to the habitations and detritus of everyday life, from mansions and modest railway huts, to empty swimming pools, heirlooms, and photograph albums. Exploring works by Penelope Lively, J. G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, and Janet Frame, this study establishes new connections between authors usually discussed for their fiction, and who have been hitherto unrecognised as post-imperial life writers. Offering close, sustained analysis of autobiographies, memoirs, travel narratives, and autofictions, and identifying new subgenres such as 'speculative life writing', this book advances rich new readings of autobiographical narrative. By tracing the continuing importance of colonialism to white subjectivity, the role of imperial memory in Britain, and the ways that these unsettling forces move beneath the surface of modern and contemporary literature, this study offers new conceptual insights to the fields of life writing and postcolonial studies.

Author : Bootheina Majoul
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Ontology in literature
ISBN : 9781443891950

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Doris Lessing by Bootheina Majoul Pdf

Doris Lessing is a writer for all times; she is a historiographer and a transnational translational mediator between the East and the West. This volume provides a collection of articles analysing Doris Lessing’s literature. The first part, entitled “Lessing’s World of Words”, offers a broad vision of the writer’s novels; it introduces her many genres and sheds light on her literary affiliations. This is followed by “Lessing’s Other Spaces”, which dives into the novelist’s imaginary and spiritual universes. The final part, “Intersections: Lessing and Other Writers” establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and Ahlem Mustaghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh, Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes and Salman Rushdie’s Shame.