Watkins Doris Lessing

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-354-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Contemporary World Writers

This book 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. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watkins, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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’s Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction
6. Sweet Dreams and Rememories: Narrating the Nation and Identity
7. Critical Overview and Conclusion
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Watkins Susan:
Susan Watkins is Reader in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan UniversitySusan Watkins is Reader in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University