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Rereading Doris Lessing

Claire Sprague
Rereading Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Claire Sprague
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469620367

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Rereading Doris Lessing by Claire Sprague Pdf

According to Sprague, doubling in Lessing's novels is a perfect correlative for the complexity and contradiction Lessing perceives as central to the private and collective human experience. Her doubles and multiples not only indicate the fracturing or the formation of identity but they also are among the several strategies used to project complex private and societal concerns. This study of Lessing's dialectical imagination extends and revises earlier feminist approaches. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives

Jenny Taylor
Notebooks Memoirs Archives Book PDF

Author : Jenny Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000639216

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Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives by Jenny Taylor Pdf

Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership. Written from a feminist political perspective, and employing diverse modes of critical analysis, the present volume, originally published in 1982, aims to combine detailed technical exploration of Lessing’s work with a sense of this extraordinary writer’s historical, political and personal development. The essays, placed in political and biographical context by the editor’s introduction, span the entire length of Lessing’s career, up to Canopus in Argos, and includes studies of A Man and Two Women, The Golden Notebook and The Children of Violence as well as an interview with David Gladwell, director of Memoirs of a Survivor.

Rereading Doris Lessing

Claire Sprague
Rereading Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Claire Sprague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608052183

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Rereading Doris Lessing by Claire Sprague Pdf

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Doris Lessing

Margaret Moan Rowe
Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Margaret Moan Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,6 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.

Free Woman

Lara Feigel
Free Woman Book PDF

Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.

Rereading Modernism

Lisa Rado
Rereading Modernism Book PDF

Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321382

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Rereading Modernism by Lisa Rado Pdf

Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and goals of the new era of modernist scholarship. As the authors in this volume suggest, instead of condemning writers for not practicing or portraying an acceptable politics of gender, we ought instead to show how their assumptions about the nature of the sexes inform their texts, both in their creation and in their reception. This also allows examination of the complex and changing relationship between human subjectivity and aesthetics. This volume is a highly reflective dialogue, introspective and evaluative, at a moment of crisis within modernist studies and feminist studies. The analysis of critical work on early-twentieth-century literature not only helps reread and redefine a definition of modernism; it also intends to redirect and reintegrate feminist theory.

In Pursuit of Doris Lessing

Claire Sprague
In Pursuit of Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Claire Sprague
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

Doris Lessing and the Forming of History

Brazil Kevin Brazil
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History Book PDF

Author : Brazil Kevin Brazil
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414456

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Doris Lessing and the Forming of History by Brazil Kevin Brazil Pdf

Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe 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.Key FeaturesOffers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's work, setting the agenda for future study of her writingProvides new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing, including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs and short storiesSituates Lessing in relation to new literary and cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series, cinema, and post-war youth cultureRelates Lessing's work to contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma, ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature

Doris Lessing

Harold Bloom
Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 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..

Re-reading the Short Story

Clare Hanson
Re reading the Short Story Book PDF

Author : Clare Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349103133

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Re-reading the Short Story by Clare Hanson Pdf

This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and marginality, while others offer readings of works by writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern.

Doris Lessing

Gayle Greene
Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,9 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

Doris Lessing and Sufi Equilibrium

S. Fahim
Doris Lessing and Sufi Equilibrium Book PDF

Author : S. Fahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

The Fiction of Doris Lessing

Ratna Raman
The Fiction of Doris Lessing Book PDF

Author : Ratna Raman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789390176922

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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.

Contemporary Women Writers Look Back

Alice Ridout
Contemporary Women Writers Look Back Book PDF

Author : Alice Ridout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441168658

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Contemporary Women Writers Look Back by Alice Ridout Pdf

Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late 20th-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the 21st century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and postcolonialism.

Doris Lessings the Golden Notebook

Sabine Picout
Doris Lessings the Golden Notebook Book PDF

Author : Sabine Picout
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783656099000

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Doris Lessings the Golden Notebook by Sabine Picout Pdf

Literature Review from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: sehr gut, University of Innsbruck (Translationswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: This paper first gives a short summary of the novel "The Golden Novel" by Doris Lessing. Then the socio-political contect of the book is explained. Afterwards the background of the novel, the main ideas, the structure as well as the characters of the novel are analysed. The paper reviews the novel and can be used as basis for an oral presentation of the novel.