Doris Lessing
Published on 3. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 152 pages
978-0-333-55487-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1994
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
171 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-55487-6 (9780333554876)
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Doris Lessing
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11/1994
St. Martin's Press
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Doris Lessing
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10/1994
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Person
Margaret Moan Rowe
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.