Doris Lessing (Writers & Their Work)

Maslen, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0746307055 / ISBN 13: 9780746307052

Editore: Liverpool University Press, 2014

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• Titolo: Doris Lessing (Writers & Their Work)
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0746307055
• ISBN 13: 9780746307052
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From The Grass is Singing (1950) through to Alfred and Emily (2008) her main concerns are shown to have a remarkable continuity, both in her commitment to political and cultural issues and in her explorations of inner space. Her experiments with form are closely analysed, and her bold exposure of jargon, clich , and the manipulative power of language is demonstrated. While she can be seen as part of the great diasporaic influx that followed World War Two her experimentations with form blend in with the explorations of realism taking place in much British fiction from the early years of the twentieth century. This is a concise, accessible, but scholarly book, offering both perceptive critical insights and a valuable up-to-date bibliography.