Doris Lessing and the Forming of History

ISBN-13: 9781474431484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Kevin Brazil; David Sergeant; Tom Sperlinger

Opis

This volume views Doris 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.

Spis treści

Timeline; Introduction; 1. Early Lessing, Commitment, the World, Adam Guy; 2. ‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture 1956-1962, Nick Bentley; 3. Sequence, Series, and Character in Children of Violence, Kevin Brazil; 4. The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women’s Radical Literary Tradition, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein; 5. Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook, Sophia Barnes; 6. From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature, and Psychoanalysis, Laura Marcus; 7. ‘A funny thing laughter, what’s it for?’: Humour and Form in Lessing’s Fiction, Cornelius Collins; 8. Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis, David Sergeant; 9. Lessing and Time Travel, David Punter; 10. Lessing’s Interruptions, Tom Sperlinger; 11. Lessing’s Witness Literature, Elizabeth Maslen; 12. A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism, and Deep History, Clare Hanson; Select Bibliography.