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Author Watkins, Susan, 1967-

Title Doris Lessing / Susan Watkins
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)
Series Contemporary world writers
Contemporary world writers.
Contents 9780719074813; 9780719074813; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 Going 'home': exile and nostalgia in the writing of Doris Lessing; 3 The politics of loss:melancholy cosmopolitanism; 4 The voice of authority?; 5 Writing in a minor key: Doris Lessing'slate-twentieth-century fiction; 6 Sweet dreams and rememories:narrating nation and identity; 7 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this book, Susan Watkins examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 fast
Subject Imperialism in literature.
Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Literature.
Imperialism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781781703274
1781703272
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9781847793546