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Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction", and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.

Literature and society --- Women and literature --- History --- Lessing, Doris, --- Lessing, Doris --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Lessing, Doris (1919-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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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.

• 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

Lessing, Doris, --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Lesing, Dorisŭ, --- Лессинг, Дорис, --- לסינג, דוריס, --- Tayler, Doris May, --- Somers, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lessing, Doris --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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Lessings Übersetzungswerk - ca. 7.000 Druckseiten - umfasst mehr als vierzig Titel, fast ebenso viele Autoren und diverse Gattungen. Lessing übersetzt aus dem Lateinischen, Italienischen, Französischen, Englischen und Spanischen. Unter seiner Federführung wird die Übersetzungsfrage in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts erstmals Gegenstand der deutschen Literaturkritik; Lessing ist Leitfigur einer Epoche, in der die deutsche Literatur zu den europäischen Nachbarliteraturen aufschließt. Seine Bedeutung als Übersetzer ist gleichwohl bisher nur selten untersucht worden, ein Grund mag die noch immer beklagenswerte Editionslage sein. Der vorliegende Band ergänzt die Beiträge einer Wolfenbütteler Tagung aus dem Herbst 2007 um zwei weitere Aufsätze. Thematisch und methodisch ganz unterschiedliche Aspekte kommen dabei zur Sprache - von Lessings Übersetzungen einzelner Autoren wie Diderot, Huarte, Hutcheson, Riccoboni und St. Albine, Thomson und Voltaire, über die Frage seiner Goldoni-Adaption, bis zu allgemeinen Fragestellungen nach Lessing als Philologen, der Theorie und Praxis seiner Übersetzungen vor dem Hintergrund der Beschäftigung mit Johann Nicolaus Meinhard, seinem Anteil an der Entwicklung des deutschen Wortschatzes mit Blick auf die Übersetzungen.

Translating and interpreting --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim --- Lai-hsin, --- Lai-hsin, Kao-tʻe-ho-tʻe Ai-fei-la-mu, --- Lessing, Gotkholʹd Ėfraim, --- Lessing, G. E., --- Lessing, Goṭhold Efrayim, --- לסינג, גוטהולד אפרים, --- לעססינג, אפרים ידידיה, --- לעססינג, א. ו., --- לעססינג, גאטהאלד אפרים, --- לעססינג, גאטטהאלד עפראים --- לעססינג, גאטטהלד עפרים, --- לעססינג, ג. ע., --- לעססינג, ידידיה אפרים --- לעססינג, ידידיה אפרים, --- 莱辛, --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. --- Translation.

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East and West in literature. --- Sufism in literature. --- East and West in literature --- Sufism in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Lessing, Doris, --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Lesing, Dorisŭ, --- Лессинг, Дорис, --- לסינג, דוריס, --- Tayler, Doris May, --- Somers, Jane, --- Religion. --- Lessing, Doris

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Inspirateur du premier romantisme allemand, Friedrich Schlegel a élevé la critique littéraire au rang d’un art. Ses textes consacrés à Lessing, de 1797 à 1804, constituent sans doute la démonstration la plus aboutie de la critique romantique. Cette interprétation est paradoxale : alors que ses contemporains voyaient en Lessing un poète et un dramaturge des Lumières, Schlegel loue un critique et un philosophe. Il interprète Lessing contre son époque et dresse du même coup un manifeste de l’interprétation critique. Les Pensées et opinions de Lessing constituent la démonstration de l’imbrication romantique entre l’œuvre et son interprétation. Les écrits de Lessing deviennent la matière première d’une opération originale qui redessine une œuvre connue et inconnue à la fois. Le Lessing de Schlegel résulte de la combinaison de traits prélevés dans l’ensemble des « œuvres » et des lettres, réorientés dans la perspective de la poésie universelle progressive.

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim --- Lai-hsin, --- Lai-hsin, Kao-tʻe-ho-tʻe Ai-fei-la-mu, --- Lessing, Gotkholʹd Ėfraim, --- Lessing, G. E., --- Lessing, Goṭhold Efrayim, --- לסינג, גוטהולד אפרים, --- לעססינג, אפרים ידידיה, --- לעססינג, א. ו., --- לעססינג, גאטהאלד אפרים, --- לעססינג, גאטטהאלד עפראים --- לעססינג, גאטטהלד עפרים, --- לעססינג, ג. ע., --- לעססינג, ידידיה אפרים --- לעססינג, ידידיה אפרים, --- 莱辛, --- Philosophy --- beauté --- critique --- essence --- essentialisme --- Lacoon --- Acqui 2006 --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, - 1729-1781