Susan Watkins

Doris Lessing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097348
• ISBN-10: 0719097347
• Artikelnr.: 42375845

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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 Index