Doris Lessing

Informationen zum Autor Susan Watkins is Reader in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsChronology1. Contexts and Intertexts2. Going 'Home': Exile and Nostalgia in the Writing of Doris Lessing3. The Politics of Loss: Melancholy Cosmopolitanism4. The Voice of Authority?5. Writing in a Minor Key: Doris Lessing's Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction6. Sweet Dreams and Rememories: Narrating the Nation and Identity7. Critical Overview and ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Watkins Susan, Susan Watkins
• Assisted by: John Thieme (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9780719097348
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9734-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary World Writers; Contemporary World Writers Mup; Contemporary World Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form