Notebooks, memoirs, archives : reading and rereading Doris Lessing / edited by Jenny Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, 1949-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013--Criticism and interpretation.

Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Women and literature--Africa--History--20th century.

Africa.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Notebooks.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 251 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

Contents:

Introduction : situating reading / Jenny Taylor

Reading The golden notebook in 1962 / Jean McCrindle

Yesterday's heroines : on rereading Lessing and de Beauvoir / Elizabeth Wilson

Of mud and other matter

The children of violence / Nicole Ward Jouve

Towards a narrative analysis of A man and two women / Margaret Atack

The more recent writings : Sufism, mysticism and politics / Ann Scott

'If you mate a swan and a gander, who will ride?' / Marsha Rowe

Doris Lessing : exile and exception / Rebecca O'Rourke

Memoirs was made of this : an interview with David Gladwell, director of Memoirs of a survivor / Jenny Taylor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Notebooks, memoirs, archives.

ISBN:

0710090331

9780710090331

071009034X

9780710090348

OCLC:

8345202