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Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing book cover

1st Edition

Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing

Edited By Jenny Taylor Copyright 1982
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership. Written from a feminist political perspective, and employing diverse modes of critical analysis, the present volume, originally published in 1982, aims to combine detailed technical exploration of Lessing’s work with a sense of this extraordinary writer’s historical,... Read more

Biographical Notes.  Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction: Situating Reading Jenny Taylor  2. Reading The Golden Notebook in 1962 Jean McCrindle  3. Yesterday’s Heroines: On Rereading Lessing and de Beauvoir Elizabeth Wilson  4. Of Mud and Other Matter – The Children of Violence Nicole Ward Jouve  5. Towards a Narrative Analysis of A Man and Two Women Margaret Atack  6. The More Recent Writings: Sufism, Mysticism and Politics Ann Scott  7. ‘If You Mate a Swan and a Gander, Who Will Ride?’ Marsha Rowe  8. Doris Lessing: Exile and Exception Rebecca O’Rourke  9. Memoirs Was Made of This: An Interview with David Gladwell, Director of Memoirs of a Survivor Jenny Taylor.  Select Bibliography of Lessing Criticism.  Index.

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