| Description |
ix, 237 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on modern British literature |
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Critical essays on modern British literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Clair Sprague and Virginia Tiger -- Chronology / Mona Knapp -- Part I. Politics and patterns -- The doom of empire : memoirs of a survivor / Martin Green -- Memory and desire on going home : the deconstruction of a colonial radical / Jenny Taylor -- Doubles talk in The golden notebook / Claire Sprague -- The marriages between zones three, four, and five : Doris Lessing's alchemical allegory / Roberta Rubenstein -- Part II. Female(other) space -- Lessing and Lawrence : the battle of the sexes / Mark Spilka -- "Woman of many summers" : The summer before the dark / Virginia Tiger -- Martha Quest and "the anguish of feminine fragmentation" / Jean Pickering -- The golden notebook : "female writing" and "the great tradition" / Elizabeth Able -- The woman writer as exile : gender and possession in the African stories of Doris Lessing / Claire Hanson -- Part III. Inner and outer space -- "Disorderly company" : from The golden notebook to The four-gated city / Dagmar Barnouw -- Doris Lessing and R.D. Laing : psychopolitics and prophecy / Marion Vlastos -- Doris Lessing's Citta felice / Ellen Cronan Rose -- Competing codes in Shikasta / Betsy Draine -- Part IV. Reception and reputation -- The grass is singing : some recent fiction / Ernest Jones -- The grass is singing / Klad -- Children of violence : frustration on the Veldt / C.P. Snow -- New novels / Kingsley Amis -- Last children of violence / Joyce Carol Oates -- The golden notebook : neither compromise nor happiness / Irving Howe -- "An interview with Adrienne Rich" / Elly Bulkin -- On several novels : Doris Lessing : Cassandra in a world under siege / Margaret Drabble -- And they all lived unhappily ever after / Rebecca West -- Briefing for a descent into hell / Joan Didion -- The summer before the dark : everywoman out of love? / Erica Jong -- Canopus in Argos : archives Paradise regained / Gore Vidal -- The spacing out of Doris Lessing / John Leonard -- Galactic orthodoxies / Claire Sprague -- The diaries of Jane Somers : the Doris Lessing hoax / Ellen Goodman -- Lessing is more : an "unknown" author and the success syndrome / Jonathan Yardley -- Doris Lessing in New York : 1969 and 1984 : "best battles are fought by men and women together" / Susan Brownmiller -- Candid shot : Lessing in New York City, April 1 and 2, 1984 / Virginia Tiger. |
| Subject |
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Sprague, Claire.
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Tiger, Virginia.
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| ISBN |
0816187568 |
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