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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791952203321

Autore

Watkins Susan <1967->

Titolo

Doris Lessing / / Susan Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2010

ISBN

1-84779-671-0

1-78170-327-2

1-84779-354-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary world writers

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Imperialism in literature

Literature

Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719074813; 9780719074813; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's foreword; 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'slate-twentieth-century fiction; 6 Sweet dreams and rememories:narrating nation and identity; 7 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Susan Watkins 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.