Doris Lessing
Published on 3. October 1994
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-0-333-55486-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels, from "The Grass is Singing" to "The Fifth Child", this book 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 identifications in Lessing, Rowe relates them to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in her fiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
247 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-55486-9 (9780333554869)
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Content
Acknowledgements - A Note on Editions - General Editors' Preface - The Far Countries: Lessing's Early Years - Two Versions of an African Girlhood: The Grass is Singing and Children of Violence - The Sex War: Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage and The Golden Notebook - 'Charting the New Territory': The Four-Gated City - Parables of Inner Space: Briefing for a Descent into Hell, The Summer Before the Dark, and The Memoirs of a Survivor - 'Many a Planet by Many a Sun': Canopus in Argos - Reentry: The Diaries of Jane Somers, The Good Terrorist and The Fifth Child - 'The Battle of the Books': Lessing and the Critics - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index