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Doris Lessing

Name: Doris Lessing
Author: Margaret Moan Rowe
ISBN: 9780312121921

by Margaret Moan Rowe

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In search of the 'resting point' that she names in 'The Small Personal Voice' (1957), Doris Lessing also responds to the restlessness of her times as she explores a myriad of individual and communal dislocations in her writing. Through readings of novels from The Grass Is Singing (1950) to The Fifth Child (1988), Margaret 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 identifications in Lessing, Rowe relates those identifications to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in Lessing's fiction.

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Through readings of novels from The Grass is Singing (1950) to The Fifth Child (1988), Rowe maps many of the cultural and literary negotiations that make Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist. 5x7.5". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)