Freedom and form in the fiction of Doris Lessing

Title: Freedom and form in the fiction of Doris Lessing
Creator: Flischman, Rita
Subject: Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation
Date Issued: 1981
Date: 1981
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2269
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005921
Identifier: Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: From Introduction: This thesis then is a detailed study of Lessing's novels in an attempt to show her development as a writer. Her short stories are handled briefly in connection with her novels. For, although the short stories are among her finest work, focus on the novels is sufficient to show her growth as a writer. Hers is the small individual struggle to overcome the limitations of both her content and her form. To overcome the limitations of her content means expanding her own consciousness and re-forming life itself. Only when she is free and the world is free can she overcome the limitations of her content. Then, of course, she need no longer and can no longer write. The task seems as impossible as that of the dung beetles, but she nevertheless continues. Like the sacred beetles with "the sun between their feet" she carries on rolling the muck of the world into symbols of the truth.
Format: 214 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, English
Language: English
Rights: Flischman, Rita

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