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Publisher :Vintage Release Date :1988-04-12 ISBN : Pages :228 pages Rating :4.0/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing:
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Survivor written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.
Publisher : Release Date :1974 ISBN : Pages :189 pages Rating :4.:/5 (14 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Memoirs of a survivor by Doris Lessing:
Download or read book The Memoirs of a survivor written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Cambridge Scholars Publishing Release Date :2014-07-18 ISBN :1443864439 Pages :220 pages Rating :4.4/5 (438 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction by Sharon R. Wilson:
Download or read book Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction written by Sharon R. Wilson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction explores the genres of utopian and dystopian recent fiction. It is about how this literature of both imagined perfection and disaster creates new worlds and critiques gender roles, traditions, and values. Essays range in subject matter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, P. D. James, Joanna Russ, and Marge Piercy, to Ursula Le Guin, Fay Weldon, and Toni Morrison. Two of the three sections focus on Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood. Examining especially the twentieth century, including second-wave feminism, writers from Tunisia, Turkey, Italy, Korea, the US, and England give both an historical and a global perspective. Utopian and dystopian elements are explored in the Nobel-Prize-winning Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor, the little-known Mara and Dann, and The Cleft; and new perspectives are offered on Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Publisher :Psychology Press Release Date :1996 ISBN :0415072301 Pages :274 pages Rating :4.4/5 (15 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The English Novel in History, 1950-1995 by Steven Connor:
Download or read book The English Novel in History, 1950-1995 written by Steven Connor and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, this book offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of the twentieth century.Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as* George Orwell* William Golding* Angela Carter* Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo* Hanif Kureishi* Marina Warner* Maggie GeeWritten by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.
Publisher : Release Date :1976 ISBN :9780553125818 Pages :217 pages Rating :4.1/5 (258 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing:
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Survivor written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :1994-10-03 ISBN :1349236225 Pages :152 pages Rating :4.3/5 (492 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Doris Lessing by Margaret Moan Rowe:
Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Margaret Moan Rowe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child, Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist. Examining the pull of paternal and maternal biographical and literary identification in Lessing, Rowe relates them to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in her fiction.
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2019-10-21 ISBN :1000639215 Pages :262 pages Rating :4.0/5 (6 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives by Jenny Taylor:
Download or read book Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives written by Jenny Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership. Written from a feminist political perspective, and employing diverse modes of critical analysis, the present volume, originally published in 1982, aims to combine detailed technical exploration of Lessing’s work with a sense of this extraordinary writer’s historical, political and personal development. The essays, placed in political and biographical context by the editor’s introduction, span the entire length of Lessing’s career, up to Canopus in Argos, and includes studies of A Man and Two Women, The Golden Notebook and The Children of Violence as well as an interview with David Gladwell, director of Memoirs of a Survivor.
Publisher :Rodopi Release Date :2001 ISBN :9789042014374 Pages :432 pages Rating :4.0/5 (143 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Engendering Realism and Postmodernism by Beate Neumeier:
Download or read book Engendering Realism and Postmodernism written by Beate Neumeier and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This volume assembles critical essays on, and excerpts from, works of contemporary women writers in Britain. Its focus is the interaction of aesthetic play and ethical commitment in the fictional work of women writers whose interest in testing and transgressing textual boundaries is rooted in a specific awareness of a gendered multicultural reality. This position calls for a distinctly critical impetus of their writing involving the interaction of the political and the literary as expressed in innovative combinations of realist and postmodern techniques in works by A. S. Byatt, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Penelope Lively, Sara Maitland, Suniti Namjoshi, Ravinder Randhawa, Joan Riley, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson. All contributions to this volume address aspects of these writers' positions and techniques with a clear focus on their interest in transgressing boundaries of genre, gender and (post)colonial identity. The special quality of these interpretations, first given in the presence of writers at a symposium in Potsdam, derives from the creative and prosperous interactions between authors and critics. The volume concludes with excerpts from the works of the participating writers which exemplify the range of concrete concerns and technical accomplisments discussed in the essays. They are taken from fictional works by Debjani Chatterjee, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Sara Maitland, and Ravinder Randhawa. They also include the creative interactions of Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe in their joint writing and Paul Magrs' critical engagement with Sara Maitland.
Publisher :SUNY Press Release Date :1997-01-01 ISBN :9780791433836 Pages :308 pages Rating :4.4/5 (338 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Between East and West by Müge Galin:
Download or read book Between East and West written by Müge Galin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: 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.
Publisher :McFarland Release Date :2015-09-16 ISBN :9780786480296 Pages :220 pages Rating :4.4/5 (82 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction by Peter Brigg:
Download or read book The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction written by Peter Brigg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been incorporating science—not only the commonly thought of science and technology but also the “soft” sciences such as psychology and sociology—into what was previously considered mainstream fiction. This book examines works by Thomas Pynchon, Doris Lessing, and others who incorporate science in fiction and exemplify the movement of mainstream fiction writers toward a new genre termed “span.” It also examines works by some science fiction writers who are edging closer to the border of science fiction and slowly over into span. This book maps the boundaries of the new span genre of fiction and thus helps define texts that fall outside the realms of mainstream and science fiction. Diagrams are included and a bibliography and index.
Publisher :LIT Verlag Münster Release Date :2004 ISBN :9783825878931 Pages :296 pages Rating :4.8/5 (789 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Das Selbst im Stil by Aglaja Frodl:
Download or read book Das Selbst im Stil written by Aglaja Frodl and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Springer Release Date :1994-07-12 ISBN :0230375227 Pages :279 pages Rating :4.2/5 (33 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Doris Lessing and Sufi Equilibrium by S. Fahim:
Download or read book Doris Lessing and Sufi Equilibrium written by S. Fahim and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-07-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: 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.
Publisher :ARTER Release Date :2019-09-01 ISBN :6056948943 Pages :284 pages Rating :4.0/5 (569 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review What Time Is It? by Emre Baykal:
Download or read book What Time Is It? written by Emre Baykal and published by ARTER. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Arter initiates a new publication series, Arter Background, to accompany group exhibitions drawn from its collection, which holds more than 1,300 works of art as of 2019. This first book of the series accompanies one of the opening exhibitions of Arter’s new building, a collection-based group exhibition entitled What Time Is It?. Curated by Emre Baykal and Eda Berkmen, the exhibition is conceived around the concepts of memory, space and time. In the book, excerpts of texts selected around the ideas active in the curatorial process are complemented by new essays written specifically for this context, in line with Arter’s mission of encouraging artistic and cultural production. It thus features texts on themes associated with houses, everyday objects, personal and collective histories, inside and outside, urban rhythms, architecture, archaeology, borders and migration, and includes commissioned essays by Erdem Ceylan, Deniz Gül, Gökhan Kodalak, and Nil Sakman. While close-up visual excerpts taken from the art works are cited side by side with the texts, the installation views from the exhibition assume their places as the first entries into the memory of Arter’s new space. With contributions by Etel Adnan • Guillaume Apollinaire • Marc Augé • Ingeborg Bachmann • Matsuo Basho • Joe Brainard • Sevim Burak • Erdem Ceylan • Boubacar Boris Diop • Harun Farocki • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht • Deniz Gül • Nurdan Gürbilek • Christopher F. Hasty • Eric Hattan • Stephen Hawking • Zbigniew Herbert • Cem İleri • Gökhan Kodalak • Milan Kundera • Henri Lefebvre • Édouard Levé • Agustín Fernández Mallo • Jonas Mekas • Georges Perec • Fernando Pessoa • Marcel Proust • Rodrigo Quian Quiroga • Rainer Maria Rilke • Yannis Ritsos • Nil Sakman • Bruno Schulz • W.G. Sebald • Susan Sontag • Wallace Stevens • Stefan Zweig
Publisher :Edinburgh University Press Release Date :2016-09-20 ISBN :1474414443 Pages :256 pages Rating :4.4/5 (744 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Doris Lessing and the Forming of History by Kevin Brazil:
Download or read book Doris Lessing and the Forming of History written by Kevin Brazil and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: 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.
Publisher :Boydell & Brewer Release Date :2022 ISBN :1640141219 Pages :301 pages Rating :4.6/5 (41 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust by Ceija Stojka:
Download or read book The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust written by Ceija Stojka and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: "Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), told from her perspective as a child interned in three Nazi concentration camps from age nine to fifteen. Written by a child survivor much later in life, the memoirs offer insights into the nexus of narrative and extreme trauma, expressing the full spectrum of human emotions: fear and sorrow at losing loved ones; joy and relief when reconnecting with family and friends; desire to preserve some memories while attempting to erase others; horror at acts of genocide, and hope arising from dreams of survival.In addition to annotated translations of the three memoirs, the book includes two of Stojka's poems and an interview by Karin Berger, editor of the original editions of Stojka's memoirs, as well as color reproductions of several of her artworks and historical photographs. An introduction contextualizes her works within Romani history and culture, and a glossary informs the reader about the "concentrationary universe." Because the memoirs show how Stojka navigated male-dominated postwar Austrian culture, generally discriminatory to Roma, and the patriarchal aspects of Romani culture itself, the book is a contribution not only to Holocaust Studies but also to Austrian Studies, Romani Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.and a glossary informs the reader about the "concentrationary universe." Because the memoirs show how Stojka navigated male-dominated postwar Austrian culture, generally discriminatory to Roma, and the patriarchal aspects of Romani culture itself, the book is a contribution not only to Holocaust Studies but also to Austrian Studies, Romani Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.and a glossary informs the reader about the "concentrationary universe." Because the memoirs show how Stojka navigated male-dominated postwar Austrian culture, generally discriminatory to Roma, and the patriarchal aspects of Romani culture itself, the book is a contribution not only to Holocaust Studies but also to Austrian Studies, Romani Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.and a glossary informs the reader about the "concentrationary universe." Because the memoirs show how Stojka navigated male-dominated postwar Austrian culture, generally discriminatory to Roma, and the patriarchal aspects of Romani culture itself, the book is a contribution not only to Holocaust Studies but also to Austrian Studies, Romani Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.
Publisher :Springer Release Date :2014-05-14 ISBN :1137413662 Pages :226 pages Rating :4.1/5 (374 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Literary Half-Lives by R. Rubenstein:
Download or read book Literary Half-Lives written by R. Rubenstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook , she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman à clef .
Publisher :Cambridge Scholars Publishing Release Date :2016-04-26 ISBN :1443891959 Pages :110 pages Rating :4.4/5 (438 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Doris Lessing by Bootheina Majoul:
Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Bootheina Majoul and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Doris Lessing is a writer for all times; she is a historiographer and a transnational translational mediator between the East and the West. This volume provides a collection of articles analysing Doris Lessing’s literature. The first part, entitled “Lessing’s World of Words”, offers a broad vision of the writer’s novels; it introduces her many genres and sheds light on her literary affiliations. This is followed by “Lessing’s Other Spaces”, which dives into the novelist’s imaginary and spiritual universes. The final part, “Intersections: Lessing and Other Writers” establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and Ahlem Mustaghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh, Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes and Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
