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