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Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical
change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel
Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that
cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's
writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative
attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges
thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she
lived. The 12 original chapters provide new readings of Lessing's
work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical
women's writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with
genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw
on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores
how Lessing's writing can provide insight into some of the issues
now shaping twenty-first century scholarship including trauma,
ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature as they emerge
as defining challenges to our own present moment in history.Key
FeaturesOffers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's
work, setting the agenda for future study of her writingProvides
new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing,
including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels
such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs
and short storiesSituates Lessing in relation to new literary and
cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series,
cinema, and post-war youth cultureRelates Lessing's work to
contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma,
ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature
Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical
change in her own lifetime and beyond The death of Nobel
Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that
cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's
writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative
attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges
thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she
lived. The 12 original chapters provide new readings of Lessing's
work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical
women's writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with
genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw
on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores
how Lessing's writing can provide insight into some of the issues
now shaping twenty-first century scholarship - including trauma,
ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature - as they emerge
as defining challenges to our own present moment in history. Key
Features Offers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's
work, setting the agenda for future study of her writing Provides
new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing,
including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels
such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs
and short stories Situates Lessing in relation to new literary and
cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series,
cinema, and post-war youth culture Relates Lessing's work to
contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma,
ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature
Eggs, woods, football, nations, smoke, birds (common, other),
tigers, murders, curtains, rivers, chromosomes, love (varieties
of), Welles (Orson), pints, bras, partings, heartings, breakings,
namings, and diverse other matters, in poetry free and formal,
within this book, the first from its author.
A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis
has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an
increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these
disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting?
And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where
we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across
novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits
between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate
change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the
other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change,
but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this
struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an
emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.
Kipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901 re-establishes its subject as a
major artist. Through extended close readings of individual works,
and unprecedentedly detailed attention to changes in location and
readership, it distinguishes between two kinds of Kipling fiction.
The first is coercive and concerned with the authoritarian control
of meaning; the second relates less directly to its immediate
historical surroundings and is more aesthetically complex.
Misunderstandings have often resulted from confusing the two kinds
of work. Distinguishing between them allows for a newly coherent
account of Kipling's career, both explaining his artistic
achievement and making clearer his identity as a political writer.
Changes in Kipling's narrative practice are tracked as he moves
from India to Britain and the US, and engages with a succession of
new audiences and political contexts; detailed readings are
provided of such key texts as Plain Tales from the Hills, The
Jungle Books and Kim. As well as revealing the precise nature of
Kipling's artistry, this book shows how properties of narrative
which have been generally underrated - such as embodiment and
externality - can be used to make sophisticated fictions, and by
linking these to Robert Louis Stevenson's discussion of the
romance, suggests new ways in which such work might be approached.
This book features new essays on Burns' special place in Scottish,
English and Irish literary culture. This volume examines the
innovative and technically accomplished nature of Burns' poetry.
Close readings explore his dialogues with earlier poets such as
John Milton, Thomas Gray, Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson and
these sit alongside analyses of the creative responses of his
contemporaries and literary heirs including William Wordsworth,
James Hogg, Thomas Dermody, Hugh MacDiarmid, George Mackay Brown,
Don Paterson and Seamus Heaney. They demonstrate how Burns drew on
Scottish vernacular traditions, English poetry and 18th-century
sentimentalism to create his own, new kind of poetry. The
contributors include leading poet-critics Douglas Dunn and the
award-winning Burns author Robert Crawford alongside experts in
poetry criticism Stephen Gill and Patrick Crotty. It features two
poems written especially for the volume by Bernard O'Donoghue and
Andrew McNeillie.
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