| Description |
1 online resource (x, 172 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
Horrors of the breast : cultural boundaries and the abject in The Grass is singing / Edith Frampton -- Inside and outside colonial spaces : border crossings in Doris Lessing's African stories' / Pat Louw -- Doris Lessing's The golden notebook : an experiment in critical fiction / Nick Bentley -- Doris Lessing's fantastic children / Roberta Rubenstein -- The 'Jane Somers' hoax : aging, gender and the literary marketplace / Susan Watkins -- (Not such) Great expectations : unmaking maternal ideals in The fifth child and We need to talk about Kevin / Ruth Robbins -- Doris Lessing's Under my skin : the autobiography of a cosmopolitan 'third culture kid' / Alice Ridout -- Environmental fables? The eco-politics of Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' novels / Fiona Becket -- The porous border between fact and fiction, empathy and identification in Doris Lessing's The cleft / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- Afterword / Judith Kegan Gardiner |
| Summary |
Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 fast |
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century
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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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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and society
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Women and literature
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Africa
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ridout, Alice
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Watkins, Susan, 1967-
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| ISBN |
9781441121028 |
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1441121021 |
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1282452878 |
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9781282452879 |
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9781472542403 |
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1472542401 |
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9781441104168 |
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144110416X |
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9781441192646 |
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1441192646 |
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