Book Description
Though Doris Lessing never explicitly refers to spirituality in her works, she nonetheless explores spiritual issues throughout her texts. This book examines the prominence of spirituality in her writings. The volume provides both close readings of individual works and sweeping surveys of her nearly fifty year career. The contributors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives such as systems theory, feminist studies of the body and of androgyny, postcolonial theories, mythic prophecy, and intersubjective psychology. The contributors reveal that Lessing's presentation of spirituality is neither rigid nor orthodox either the product of the split between the body and the soul nor anchored in formal systems of the past or present.
About the Author
PHYLLIS STERNBERG PERRAKIS is a part-time Professor of English at the University of Ottawa and is president of the Doris Lessing Society.
Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing, Vol. 81 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Though Doris Lessing never explicitly refers to spirituality in her works, she nonetheless explores spiritual issues throughout her texts. This book examines the prominence of spirituality in her writings. The volume provides both close readings of individual works and sweeping surveys of her nearly fifty year career. The contributors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives such as systems theory, feminist studies of the body and of androgyny, postcolonial theories, mythic prophecy, and intersubjective psychology. The contributors reveal that Lessing's presentation of spirituality is neither rigid nor orthodox either the product of the split between the body and the soul nor anchored in formal systems of the past or present.
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Booknews
Contains nine essays addressing novelist and essayist Doris Lessing's "spirituality"a word she never uses in her fiction and which seems to represent a range of existential issues in this volume. Contributions address works in which ordinary experiences such as growing old and struggling to adapt to married life incorporate or reveal a "spiritual" dimension; the evolution and devolution of individual identity and societies; and exploration of the larger patterns that inform Lessing's work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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