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Doris Lessing and the Forming of History / Tom Sperlinger, Kevin Brazil, David Sergeant.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474414432
  • 9781474414449
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.914
LOC classification:
  • PR6023.E833
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Early Lessing, Commitment, the World -- 2. 'I'm an adolescent. And that's how I'm going to stay': Lessing and Youth Culture 1956-1962 -- 3. Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence -- 4. The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women's Radical Literary Tradition -- 5. Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook -- 6. From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis -- 7. 'A funny thing laughter, what's it for?': Humour and Form in Lessing's Fiction -- 8. Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis -- 9. Lessing and Time Travel -- 10. Lessing's Interruptions -- 11. Lessing's Witness Literature -- 12. A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe 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.Key FeaturesOffers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's work, setting the agenda for future study of her writingProvides new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing, including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs and short storiesSituates Lessing in relation to new literary and cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series, cinema, and post-war youth cultureRelates Lessing's work to contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma, ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Early Lessing, Commitment, the World -- 2. 'I'm an adolescent. And that's how I'm going to stay': Lessing and Youth Culture 1956-1962 -- 3. Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence -- 4. The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women's Radical Literary Tradition -- 5. Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook -- 6. From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis -- 7. 'A funny thing laughter, what's it for?': Humour and Form in Lessing's Fiction -- 8. Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis -- 9. Lessing and Time Travel -- 10. Lessing's Interruptions -- 11. Lessing's Witness Literature -- 12. A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe 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.Key FeaturesOffers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's work, setting the agenda for future study of her writingProvides new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing, including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs and short storiesSituates Lessing in relation to new literary and cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series, cinema, and post-war youth cultureRelates Lessing's work to contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma, ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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