In Pursuit Of Doris Lessing

Author : Claire Sprague
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349207541

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In Pursuit of Doris Lessing by Claire Sprague Pdf

The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works. Nine different Lessings emerge from these essays, forcing us to question received propositions about the universality of literature and the stability of the text and uncovering and recovering in the process the pungent, variable, controversial Lessing who has been and remains as international and transcultural as she is African and English.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007381678

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In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing Pdf

By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

Author : Claire Sprague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349207551

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In Pursuit of Doris Lessing by Claire Sprague Pdf

The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works. Nine different Lessings emerge from these essays, forcing us to question received propositions about the universality of literature and the stability of the text and uncovering and recovering in the process the pungent, variable, controversial Lessing who has been and remains as international and transcultural as she is African and English.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Boardinghouses
ISBN : 0006545165

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In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing Pdf

In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail. But the English she pursued - and found - were living in working-class homes in East London. They were lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded - quite unlike what they were supposed to be.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Autobiographical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038863200

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In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing Pdf

The author describes the social life and customs of daily life in London.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 9780791074411

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Doris Lessing by Harold Bloom Pdf

Essays of critical interpretation portray views of Doris Lessing's work, including The Golden Notebook, Marriages, and The Grass is Singing..

Author : Margaret Moan Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349236220

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Doris Lessing by Margaret Moan Rowe Pdf

Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child, Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist. Examining the pull of paternal and maternal biographical and literary identification in Lessing, Rowe relates them to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in her fiction.

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 : 43,8 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 : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : 159 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Young adult fiction
ISBN : 0007154399

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The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Pdf

Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410360595

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A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories 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 Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Divya, Sajja
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789383241095

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An Extended Literary Evocation of South Africa: Interpreting and Neo-Humanism in Doris Lessing's Fiction by Divya, Sajja Pdf

Author : Carole Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050149882

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Doris Lessing by Carole Klein Pdf

Throughout her life, Doris Lessing broke the rules in both her her personal life and within the accepted mores of literature. A trailblaser of the women's movement and an early experimenter with drugs, she gained notoriety in the sixties with her first novel The Grass is Singing, and subsequently with her explosive Golden Notebook and the Children of Violence series. At the age of eighty she remains part of the avant garde.

Author : Alice Ridout,Susan Watkins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.