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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.

Table of Contents

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

Doris Lessing Contemporary World Writers

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2015
      ISBN13: 9780719097348, 978-0719097348
      ISBN10: 719097347

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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