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The 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. Early Lessing, Commitment, The World / Adam Guy -- 'i'm An Adolescent. And That's How I'm Gong To Stay': Lessing And Youth Culture 1956-1962 / Nick Bentley -- Sequence, Series And Character In Childr

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Author

Brazil, Kevin;Lessing, Doris;Sergeant, David;Sperlinger, Tom

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474414432

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction