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Lessing's Dramatic Theory: Being an Introduction to & Commentary on His Hamburgische Dramaturgie

Book by J. G. Robertson; 1939

Subjects:

Drama--Technique, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim--1729-1781--Juden, Theater--Germany--Hamburg

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Lessings Dramatic Theory CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: BENTLEY...MACMILLAN TOKYO: MARUZEN COMPANY LTD All rights reserved Lessings Dramatic Theory BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMENTARY...Theatre 40 CHAPTER III Lessings Earlier Dramaturgic Journals 94...
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Life of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Book by T. W. Rolleston, John Parker Anderson; W. Scott, 1889

Subjects:

Authors, German--18th Century--Biography, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim--1729-1781--Bibliography, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim--1729-1781--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the materials for this account of Lessings life have been drawn cannot beconveniently...stock, Winckelmann, and Lessing; Lessings birth, January 22, 1729, and parentage...features in its system; its masters; Lessings early literary productions; his character...
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Lessing, the Founder of Modern German Literature

Book by H. B. Garland; Macmillan, 1962

Subjects:

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim--1729-1781

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Rollestons book of 1899. Since Lessings social message is highly relevant...detail as possible on the subject of Lessings own writings has been included; but...such a book than a full statement of Lessings own views. In order that the various...
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Doris Lessing

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1986

Subjects:

Fiction, Lessing, Doris May--1919---Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--Africa--History--20th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Harold Bloom Doris Lessings Intense Commitment 9...Feeling and Reason in Doris Lessings Fiction 103...that there are acute limitations to Lessings achievement, limitations caused by...
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Doris Lessing: The Alchemy of Survival

Book by Carey Kaplan, Ellen Cronan Rose; Ohio University Press, 1988

Subjects:

Lessing, Doris May--1919---Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--Africa--History--20th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Doris Lessings "Debt" to Olive Schreiner. Victoria...Britains Imperialist Past in Doris Lessings Futurist Fiction. Carey Kaplan...explain the variety and richness of Lessings writing: 1 "to differ" to be unlike...

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Our Mothers' Gardens: Doris Lessing's "Among the Roses."

Journal article by Lisa Tyler; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 31, 1994

Subjects:

Among the Roses (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lessing, Doris--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mothers and daughters--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Our mothers gardens: Doris Lessings "Among the Roses." by Lisa...on Annas part, and quite possibly Lessings. Lessing is more openly scornful in...on . . ." (99/118; first ellipses Lessings). Shirley doesnt want to "end up like...
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Re-membering the Future: Doris Lessing's 'Experiment in Autobiography'

Journal article by Aaron S. Rosenfeld; Critical Survey, Vol. 17, 2005

Subjects:

Autobiographical fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Lessing, Doris--Criticism and interpretation, The Memoirs of a Survivor (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Re-membering the Future: Doris Lessings Experiment in Autobiography. by Aaron S. Rosenfeld Doris Lessings The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) straddles...history that Lessing subverts. Though Lessings text resembles feminist dystopian...
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"Women's Time": Women, Age, and Intergenerational Relations in Doris Lessing's the Diaries of Jane Somers

Journal article by Diana Wallace; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

Aging (Biology)--Influence, Aging--Influence, Janna, Maudie--Comparative analysis, Janna, Maudie--Works, Lessing, Doris--Criticism and interpretation, Lessing, Doris--Works, The Diaries of Jane Somers (Collection)--Criticism and interpretation, The Golden Notebook (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Comparative analysis, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Comparative analysis, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works, Women--Physiological aspects, Women--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Intergenerational Relations in Doris Lessings the Diaries of Jane Somers. by...Published over two decades later, Lessings The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984...pseudonym "Jane Somers." This ruse and Lessings reasons for it initially attracted...
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Nuclear Cassandra: Prophecy in Doris Lessing's the Golden Notebook

Journal article by Sarah Henstra; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007

Subjects:

Future predictions--Portrayals, Lessing, Doris--Works, Prophecy--Ethical aspects, Prophecy--Portrayals, Social novels, The Golden Notebook (Novel), Women novelists--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nuclear Cassandra: Prophecy in Doris Lessings the Golden Notebook. by Sarah...exactly what the prophet-narrator in Lessings novel feels compelled to tell. Christa...prophet-narrators of both Wolfs and Lessings novels. (3) The Golden Notebooks protagonist...
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Who Am I When the Other Disappears?: Identity and Progress in Doris Lessing's the Sirian Experiments

Journal article by David Waterman; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 29, 2006

Subjects:

Identity--Analysis, Lessing, Doris--Works, The Sirian Experiments (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Disappears?: Identity and Progress in Doris Lessings the Sirian Experiments. by David...The Politics of Experience Doris Lessings novel The Sirian Experiments is the...Argos: Archives, science is one of Lessings major targets of criticism, especially...

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Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann

Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 14, May 1999

Subjects:

African writers--Criticism and interpretation, Africans--Portrayals, Authors, African--Criticism and interpretation, Lessing, Doris--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

Doris Lessings Mara and Dann. Editors Introduction...alien in 1956, a ban that lasted until 1995. Lessings deeply autobiographical fiction emerges...Perceptive commentators have suggested placing Lessings science fiction at the center of her works...
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Love, Again: It Might Not Be Clear What We Are to Make of the Artificiality of Doris Lessing's Stories, but They Convey Greater Human Truths

Magazine article by Claire Messud; New Statesman, Vol. 132, December 8, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Grandmothers (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Make of the Artificiality of Doris Lessings Stories, but They Convey Greater Human...sterling The four long stories in Doris Lessings new collection are linked by their...really, if you looked, not so alike." Lessings syntactical inversions insist on the...
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Lessons in Survival

Magazine article by Judith E. Chettle; World and I, Vol. 14, May 1999

Subjects:

Lessing, Doris--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...will, or can, end is another theme of Lessings: Nothing is permanent but sometimes...of the story she is telling. In Lessings acclaimed first novel, The Grass Is...moving easily under the flesh." Lessings ability to select those small but...
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Discussion Questions

Magazine article by Natalie Kemmitt; Book, May 2001

Subjects:

Angle of Repose (Book)--United States, Lessing, Doris--Authorship, Questions and answers--Literature, Stegner, Wallace--Authorship, The Fifth Child (Book)--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...apportioned? Is Lyman particularly protective of his grandmother because he believes that history will judge her harshly? Doris Lessings The Fifth Child What do David and Harriet Lovatt want from life? What motivates their desires? How do the times they...
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Chosen

Magazine article; Book, May 2001

Subjects:

Casey, John--Authorship, Drop (Book)--United States, Johnson, Mat--Authorship, Lessing, Doris--Authorship, Shem, Samuel--Authorship, Spartina (Book)--United States, The Fifth Child (Book)--United States, The House of God (Book)--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...interns try to forget med school, avoid the administrations blue blazers and follow the Fat Mans rules. THE FIFTH CHILD Doris Lessing Harriet and David create their version of happiness: a big home, a big family. After the births of the first four children...

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Doris Lessing's Truthful Fiction

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 7, 2004

Subjects:

Lessing, Doris

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Doris Lessings Truthful Fiction. Byline: Judith...that puts a spring in the step - Doris Lessings latest book vigorously suggests otherwise...the zest of a much younger writer, Mrs. Lessing is still exploring uncomfortable ideas...
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Lessing Plays Fantasy Family

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 18, 2008

Subjects:

Lessing, Doris

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...influential philanthropist. Although in the fictional part of Lessings book Emily and Alfred do meet, it isonly as casual acquaintances...in Essex,but in the harsh scrub of the Rhodesian veldt. Lessings mother, meanwhile,never had the chance to make an impact...
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Grey Hair, Wrinkles and Razor Sharp; Author Doris Lessing Explains to Anna Shepherd Why She Relishes the Trappings of Old Age

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 6, 2004

Subjects:

Lessing, Doris

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...readers too, the greying hair, wrinkles, stoop and cracking voice are fascinating - partly because they are matched with Lessings unnerving sharpness. Lessing, currently promoting her latest literary offering (a selection of views and reviews called...
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Attacks on 9/11 No Big Deal, Says Nobel Winner; Lessing: 'Hated' Tony Blair

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 24, 2007

Subjects:

Lessing, Doris, Nobel laureates

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on 9/11 No Big Deal, Says Nobel Winner; Lessing: Hated Tony Blair. Byline: Petrina Vousden NOBELPrizewinningauthor Doris Lessing believes the terror attacks on the U.S...think, she said. Inacandidinterview,Miss Lessing also accused British people of forgetting...
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Bid for Closure in Two Halves; Fiction and Fact: Doris Lessing in 1958

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 28, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...monstrous legacy, tryingto get free". Lessings bid for closure, in Alfred and Emily...doctor sweetheart have died at sea.Lessings alternative fate for her mother is...Interesting as this is in terms of Lessings own psycho-drama, it is very badlytold...

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Lessing, Doris

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pressures toward marginalization and acculturation. Throughout Lessings work run currents of realism and fantasy, each of which...writer, is considered a classic of feminist fiction. Among Lessings other novels are Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971...
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Menschengeschlechts education of the human race (1780) applied Enlightenment ideas of progress and evolution to religion. Lessings introduction in Germany of English literature, especially of Shakespeare, was an important contribution. See studies...
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Mendelssohn, Moses

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1750) a partner in a silk merchants firm. In 1754 he met Lessing, and a life-long friendship began, out of which grew Lessings play Nathan the Wise (1779). Mendelssohns philosophy anticipated the aesthetics of Kant and Friedrich Schiller. His writings...
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WolfenbÜttel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...000 incunabula, and more than 8,000 manuscripts. Its librarians included Leibniz (1690 1716) and G. E. Lessing (1770 81). Lessings house, in which he wrote Nathan the Wise, still stands. The citys noteworthy buildings include the former ducal palace...
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Faust

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...saw in him the symbol of mans heroic striving for knowledge and power and therefore as worthy of praise and salvation. Lessings view of Faust as seeker was continued by Goethe in one of the greatest dramatic poems ever written. He enlarged upon...

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