Woolf and Lessing
Breaking the Mold
Published on 15. July 1994
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-62092-2 (ISBN)
Description
While scholarship on Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing individually has grown in recent years, this is the first book to examine together these two great writers of the twentieth century. Its four thematic sections engage readers and scholars in several provocative contemporary concerns: female subjectivity, forms of women's fiction, the complex relationship between mind and body, mother/daughter relationships, and women's aging.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-62092-2 (9780333620922)
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Content
PART 1 CONSTITUTION OF A FEMALE SUBJECT: Some Reflections of Multipersonal Method and the Dialogic in "Mrs Dalloway" and "The Golden Notebook" - Claire Sprague; Yearning and Nostalgia - Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing - Roberta Rubenstein; The Outsider-Within - Woolf and Lessing as Urban Novelists in "Mrs Dalloway" and "The Four-Gated City" - Christine W. Sizemore; "Between the Acts" and "The Golden Notebook" - From Modern to Postmodern Subjectivity - Magali Cornier Michael. PART 2 CREATION OF NEW FORMS OF FICTION: Chasing Hares through "The Waves" and "The Golden Notebook" - Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing and Creativity - Jean Tobin. PART 3 ALLIANCES BETWEEN MIND AND BODY: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing: Intransitive Turn of Mind - Linda E. Chown; Carapace and Consciousness - Phantom Limbs and Insensate Bodies - Ruth Saxton. PART 4 DEFINING FEMALE ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS: (E)Merging Daughters in Two Matricentric Texts: Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and Lessing's "The Diaries of Jane Somers" - Virginia Tiger; Mother-Daughter Passion and Rapture - The Demeter Myth in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing - Lisa Tyler; Writing Like a Crone - Narratives of Age, Anger and Sexual Identity in Doris Lessing and Virginia Woolf - Anne D. Garton.