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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 162196907X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Identity in Doris Lessing's Space Fiction written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Waterman
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ISBN 13 : 9781624993886
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Identity in Doris Lessing's Space Fiction written by David F. Waterman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780006547198
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Shikasta written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.
Author : Kevin Brazil
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474414443
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Doris Lessing and the Forming of History written by Kevin Brazil and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Author : Arina Cirstea
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113753091X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Mapping British Women Writers’ Urban Imaginaries written by Arina Cirstea and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061582484
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Golden Notebook written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777677
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Summer Before the Dark written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.
Author : Phyllis Perrakis
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing written by Phyllis Perrakis and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Doris Lessing never explicitly refers to spirituality in her works, she nonetheless explores spiritual issues throughout her texts. This book examines the prominence of spirituality in her writings. The volume provides both close readings of individual works and sweeping surveys of her nearly fifty year career. The contributors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives such as systems theory, feminist studies of the body and of androgyny, postcolonial theories, mythic prophecy, and intersubjective psychology. The contributors reveal that Lessing's presentation of spirituality is neither rigid nor orthodox neither the product of the split between the body and the soul nor anchored in formal systems of the past or present. The volume is divided into three sections. The first, on spirituality manifested in everyday life, examines individual works in which ordinary experiences such as growing old or struggling to adopt to the difficulties of married life comment on spiritual concerns. Included are chapters on The Diaries of Jane Somers and The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five. The second section contains chapters on the formation and dissolution of individual identity for characters at different stages of the life cycle and the parallel changes within societies at different stages of cultural collapse. The third part presents chapters on the larger patterns that inform many of Lessing's works, with attention either to individual texts or to clusters of her writings.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007455577
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Four-Gated City written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443833967
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Hybridity written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the unstable notion of hybridity has been the focus of a number of debates in cultural and literary studies, and has been discussed in connection with such notions as métissage, creolization, syncretism, diaspora, transculturation and in-betweeness. The aim of this volume is to form a critical assessment of the scope, significance and role of the notion in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day. The contributors propose to examine the development and various manifestations of the concept as a principle held in contempt by the partisans of racial purity, a process enthusiastically promoted by adepts of mixing and syncretism, but also a notion viewed with suspicion by those who decry its multifarious and triumphalist dimensions and its lack of political roots. The notion of hybridity is analysed in relation to the concepts of identity, nationhood, language and culture, drawing from the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young, Paul Gilroy and Edouard Glissant, among others. Contributors examine forms of hybridity in the work of such canonical writers as Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas De Quincey and Victor Hugo, as well as in contemporary American and British fiction, Neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007154395
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)
Download or read book The Fifth Child written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..
Author : Katherine Fishburn
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing written by Katherine Fishburn and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first study of Doris Lessing's science fiction, Fishburn devotes a chapter to each of Lessing's seven novels. Her major argument is that Lessing uses these novels to change our perception of reality by describing worlds that are simultaneously similar to and different from our own. Of particular importance is the fact that each narrator, by functioning as an intermediary or guide-leader, helps skeptical readers to experience the alien worlds of Lessing's imagination. As she traces the development of these seven narrators, Fishburn shows how they eventually fulfill the role of the idealized author Lessing described in The Small Personal Voice. In examining how these texts challenge us to change, Fishburn discusses the influence of Marxist and Sufi thought on Lessing and also points out the striking similarity betwen Lessing's philosophy of wholeness and the discoveries of modern physics.
Author : Suzanne Bray
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443814946
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Re-Embroidering the Robe written by Suzanne Bray and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious faith, myths and legends have always been present in literature. However, their role has changed over time. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, with the diminishing role of religion in European society, writers with some kind of belief system, whether religious or political, have tended to use myth in two different ways. They have either retold the old, familiar myths of the past so that they carry fresh messages relevant to a contemporary audience or created their own, new myths as modern vehicles of traditional truths. Many writers have combined the two techniques. Such is the transforming artistry which the eighteen essays in Re-Embroidering the Robe examine: the remaking or new-minting of myth, in literature from 1850 to the present day, so that what it embodies and expresses speaks powerfully to the modern reader. In widely differing ways, therefore, all of the texts analysed here compel attention.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000737867X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Briefing for a Descent Into Hell written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Author : Margaret Moan Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349236225
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Margaret Moan Rowe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006493259
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Survivor written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
