Doris Lessing: The Alchemy of Survival 978-0821408919, 0-8214-0891-7
In addition to the cooperation that distinguishes Lessing criticism, its other remarkable quality is its complex eclecti
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English Pages 187 Year 1988
Table of contents :
Content: * Introduction * 1. Lessing and Her Readers: Celebrating Difference * 2. A Genealogy of Readings * The Seventies * The Eighties * Selected Essays * Doris Lessing: The Politics of Radical Humanism Frederick C. Stern * Subverting the Ideology of Coherence: The Golden Notebook and The Four-Gated City Molly Hite * Ideology and Form: Decentrism in The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor, and Shikasta Alvin Sullivan * Teaching Doris Lessing As a Subversive Activity: A Response to the Preface to The Golden Notebook Katherine Fishburn * Memory and Culture within the Individual: The Breakdown of Social Exchange in Memoirs of a Survivor Jeanne Murray Walker * Resisting the Exchange: Brother-Sister Incest in Fiction in Doris Lessing Elizabeth Abel * Doris Lessing: A "Female Voice" - Past, Present, or Future? Nicole Ward Jouve * Doris Lessing's "Debt" to Olive Schreiner Victoria Middleton * Britain's Imperialist Past in Doris Lessing's Futurist Fiction Carey Kaplan * Lessing and Atopia Lorna Sage * Who is It Who Says "I"?: The Persona of a Doris Lessing Interview Eve Bertelsen * Appendix
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