Doris Lessing And Sufi Equilibrium
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Doris Lessing And Sufi Equilibrium
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Author : S. Fahim
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1994-07-12
Doris Lessing And Sufi Equilibrium written by S. Fahim and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The purpose of this study is to examine the rationale of Doris Lessing's development from Classical Realism to mysticism and forms of science fiction and to consider the unifying motifs that appear throughout her novels in her consistent search for Sufi Equilibrium. The four novels selected in this study represent significant stages in Lessing's work. Chapter one focuses on The Grass is Singing, which represents the author's early traditionally realistic writing, to show how far the preoccupations of Lessing's later novels find expression in this early work. Chapter two studies The Golden Notebook, which marks a turning point in formal structure in Lessing's canon and is selected as evidence of her interest in Sufism at that early stage. Chapter three concentrates on the study of The Memoirs of a Survivor, which has elicited a comparatively limited amount of criticism but which proves to be a major achievement when brought into line with Sufi methods of writing. Chapter four considers Lessing's science fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos', tracing sources from Oriental literature - a key which unlocks many areas of obscurity.
Doris Lessing
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Author : Shadia S. Fahim
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1994
Doris Lessing written by Shadia S. Fahim and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book charts the rationale of Doris Lessing's development in the context of Sufi as well as Western theories - a cultural hyhrid which proves useful in explaining many areas of misunderstanding in her canon. By tracing myriad sources from Oriental literature, this study uncovers many areas that have not yet been explored and unlocks the significance of the 'Mandala symbols' which are instructive in understanding Doris Lessing's later writings. The sections on Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta are particularly interesting as they provide unprecedented sources especially in relation to Oriental literature and its connection with the modern theory of the novel. The interaction between Eastern and Western approaches is thus illuminating in understanding Lessing's oeuvre and sheds light on many aspects of her writings. It provides a key to her extraordinary vision - one that incorporates more than one level and transcends cultural limitations.
Between East And West
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Author : Muge Galin
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1997-07-31
Between East And West written by Muge Galin and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-31 with Religion categories.
Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.
Doris Lessing And The Forming Of History
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Author : Kevin Brazil
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Doris Lessing And The Forming Of History written by Kevin Brazil and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Fiction Of Doris Lessing
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Author : Ratna Raman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-15
The Fiction Of Doris Lessing written by Ratna Raman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her life work. Examining five decades of Lessing's unique life, narrative strategies, and the literary traditions that she drew upon and improvised, this book highlights her extraordinary significance as a writer of our times and for our times. Lessing's fiction and non-fiction provide a seminal understanding of the key issues that shaped the twentieth century. Autodidactic and keenly interested in the world around her, Lessing flagged the problems of racism in Africa; the inequity of class in modern England; the limitations of white, middle-class women's movements that overlooked the rights of women across race and class; the marginalisation of individuals; the horror of nuclear war and the need for disarmament; and the hazardous global expansion in the face of unrelenting technological progress. Further, she raised the concern of the atomisation of modern families, violence and the urgent need for alternate modes of viewing, voicing anxieties decades ahead of other contemporary writers. Making futuristic projections through innumerable genres of writing, such as realistic narratives, memoirs, diaries and science fiction, Lessing examines myth, psychoanalysis and Marxist perspectives, engaging with a gamut of experiences that have defined modernity, and sets up feminist blueprints that challenge atrophying patriarchal hegemonies.
Doris Lessing
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Author : Alice Ridout
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-20
Doris Lessing written by Alice Ridout and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction", and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.
Postcolonial African Writers
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Author : Siga Fatima Jagne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Postcolonial African Writers written by Siga Fatima Jagne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Doris Lessing Newsletter
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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The Oxford Encyclopedia Of British Literature
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Author : David Scott Kastan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Oxford Encyclopedia Of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Collections categories.
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
Modern British Women Writers
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Author : Vicki K. Janik
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-11-30
Modern British Women Writers written by Vicki K. Janik and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.