The Grass Is Singing, the famous British female writer Doris Lessing’s maiden work, has drawn much critical attention since its publication in 1950. This novel has been studied from many perspectives at home and abro...The Grass Is Singing, the famous British female writer Doris Lessing’s maiden work, has drawn much critical attention since its publication in 1950. This novel has been studied from many perspectives at home and abroad, including feminism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, spatial criticism, etc. In recent years, more and more scholars have paid attention to the complicated and diverse narration of this novel, but few scholars have studied its polyphonic features. This paper tries to explore the polyphonic features of this novel from its diverse narration and the subjectivity of the female protagonist Mary Turner by applying Bakhtin’s polyphonic theory.展开更多
As a prolific writer of British literature in 20th century,Doris Lessing creates literary works which challenge in both theme and writing style.In her works,the style is distinctive and various,the thought s are deep,...As a prolific writer of British literature in 20th century,Doris Lessing creates literary works which challenge in both theme and writing style.In her works,the style is distinctive and various,the thought s are deep,ideas are sharp and new.This pa per studies women's subject consciousness and their awakenings,and at the same time,intends to explore her transcendence to western feminist criticism.展开更多
As a famous English contemporary women writer, Doris Lessing always puts her attention on the female characters that live in South Africa. Their lives are pathetic and sad. This thesis tries to analyze one of Lessing&...As a famous English contemporary women writer, Doris Lessing always puts her attention on the female characters that live in South Africa. Their lives are pathetic and sad. This thesis tries to analyze one of Lessing's short stories— Winter in July from Lacan's three Orders approach. Lessing is a feminist, but the deeper description of the desire and struggle in men's inner world in her works is also remarkable.展开更多
Elaine Showalter＇s A Literature of Their Own： British Women Novelists From Bront~ to Lessing is a pioneering masterpiece in feminism studies. The book impresses the reader with Showalter＇s groundwork to revive the ...Elaine Showalter＇s A Literature of Their Own： British Women Novelists From Bront~ to Lessing is a pioneering masterpiece in feminism studies. The book impresses the reader with Showalter＇s groundwork to revive the interest in long-forgotten women writers in British literature history. Showalter＇s work is indeed a kind of rediscovery, mapping widely rather than mining deeply the territory of women＇s writing. In a sense, feminist criticism came of age with this book.展开更多
Farm is a vital image in Doris Lessing’s fiction,which is also a result of colonial space production.Through a series of discriminative land policies in a colonial society,the white farmers implement labour exploitat...Farm is a vital image in Doris Lessing’s fiction,which is also a result of colonial space production.Through a series of discriminative land policies in a colonial society,the white farmers implement labour exploitation towards natives.Meanwhile,this space also presents various contradictions among whites.Moreover,colonial space production also leads to the deconstruction of natural space.Lessing’s farm writing reveals her nostalgia of the natural landscape when the farm hasn’t been involved with the capitalist space production and her concern for human beings’unity.展开更多
In the 1950s,international division of labor began to expand in the context of globalization,which is illustrated by the expansion of labor division in the global Coffee industry in The Summer before the Dark.From the...In the 1950s,international division of labor began to expand in the context of globalization,which is illustrated by the expansion of labor division in the global Coffee industry in The Summer before the Dark.From the perspective of globalization,Lessing vividly reproduced the urban division space caused by the influence of mobility(generally referring to the horizontal flow of mobile individuals and capital)in Britain when widespread inflation and strikes happening,resulting in social polarization and a series of loss of experiences.They not only reflect the declining imperial image of Britain while the colonies successively declare independence,but also indicate the mental state of British citizens under the impact of globalization.展开更多
Doris Lessing's short story--One off the Short List,like most of her famed novels,is a manifestation of individual's living state in the lonely and absurd world.In this thesis,the writer attempts to interpret ...Doris Lessing's short story--One off the Short List,like most of her famed novels,is a manifestation of individual's living state in the lonely and absurd world.In this thesis,the writer attempts to interpret this story from the view of Sartrean existentialism by analyzing the middle aged protagonist's special journey of exploring himself with suffering of being“others”so as to indicate Lessing's pessimistic attitude to modern people's existence.展开更多
Doris Lessing's novels had a profound influence on the feminist movement, but she denied a label"feminism". She is against the practical interpretation of the literary works as a propaganda tool for a so...Doris Lessing's novels had a profound influence on the feminist movement, but she denied a label"feminism". She is against the practical interpretation of the literary works as a propaganda tool for a social movement. Her novels concern about the survival of women, thinking about women's freedom, and not limited to the discussion of gender issues. Feminism is only one of the themes of its work, and it is often combined with other themes. She started by paying attention to women's survival, but the final purpose is to care for human existence.展开更多
Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is a renowned writer in the contemporary British literary scene.Her debut novel The Grass is Singing is based on a case in which a black manservant kills a white mistress who is poor a...Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is a renowned writer in the contemporary British literary scene.Her debut novel The Grass is Singing is based on a case in which a black manservant kills a white mistress who is poor and mentally unbalanced.Doris Lessing arranges a tangible form of perception for the expression of the colonial discourse in the work by seeking the relationship between spatial structure and the writer’s value.This paper focuses on the spatial writing in The Grass is Singing and analyses it in depth with reference to the spatial critical theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault.The oppressed and enslaved characters in the novel are analysed from three perspectives:physical space,social space and mental space respectively to explore how power oppression is made visible through space and the writer’s critique of colonial relations and racial discrimination as well as unequal gender relations.展开更多
The article intends to interpret The Grass Is Singing from the perspective of ecofeminism and analyze the unequal relationships between man and nature,man and woman,the white race and the black race.
Doris Lessing is a famous British female writer.Her short fiction to room 19 depicts the heroine Susan Rawing's tragic fate.The article makes an analysis on the feminine psychological need in the marriage from fou...Doris Lessing is a famous British female writer.Her short fiction to room 19 depicts the heroine Susan Rawing's tragic fate.The article makes an analysis on the feminine psychological need in the marriage from four aspects:Spiritual Freedom,Financially independent,interpersonal communication,mutual faith.展开更多
The Grass Is Singing has aroused great attention since its publication in 1950.The scholars,domestic and overseas,have studied it from various theoretical perspectives,such as feminism,post-colonialism,eco-feminism,ps...The Grass Is Singing has aroused great attention since its publication in 1950.The scholars,domestic and overseas,have studied it from various theoretical perspectives,such as feminism,post-colonialism,eco-feminism,psychoanalysis,feminist geography and archetypal criticism.They mainly focus on the form of Lessing’s artistic creation,her feminist attitude,her philosophy of life and her colonial position.This thesis intends to summarize the previous research results in recent years and then to find the space left to analyze The Grass Is Singing.展开更多
Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a f...Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a feminist or anti-feminist, as a science fiction writer or a realist who lost her way, as a Marxist or a reactionary, as a British writer or a postcolonial one. Lessing’s border-crossing not only lies in her different genres of writing or in different novels, but even in a single comparatively traditional novel. The Summer Before the Dark is a representative work of Lessing’s women portrayal transition from focusing on their outside world exploration to on their inner world seeking. This essay tries to look at the content and form of the novel, and to illustrate that Lessing’s border-crossing is also fulfilled in one single novel. She successfully crosses the border of convention and innovation： conventional in content, while innovative in form.展开更多
The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Dori...The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is considered one of the most outstanding works of literature after World War II.Interest in ethnic identity has been heightened.The book is recognized as an introspective reflection of the spiritual crisis suffered by diaspora people and societal crises of the time.The thesis will examine the oppression imposed by dominant white group by exploring the transformation of diasporic white individuals’identity.展开更多
文摘The Grass Is Singing, the famous British female writer Doris Lessing’s maiden work, has drawn much critical attention since its publication in 1950. This novel has been studied from many perspectives at home and abroad, including feminism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, spatial criticism, etc. In recent years, more and more scholars have paid attention to the complicated and diverse narration of this novel, but few scholars have studied its polyphonic features. This paper tries to explore the polyphonic features of this novel from its diverse narration and the subjectivity of the female protagonist Mary Turner by applying Bakhtin’s polyphonic theory.
文摘As a prolific writer of British literature in 20th century,Doris Lessing creates literary works which challenge in both theme and writing style.In her works,the style is distinctive and various,the thought s are deep,ideas are sharp and new.This pa per studies women's subject consciousness and their awakenings,and at the same time,intends to explore her transcendence to western feminist criticism.
文摘As a famous English contemporary women writer, Doris Lessing always puts her attention on the female characters that live in South Africa. Their lives are pathetic and sad. This thesis tries to analyze one of Lessing's short stories— Winter in July from Lacan's three Orders approach. Lessing is a feminist, but the deeper description of the desire and struggle in men's inner world in her works is also remarkable.
文摘Elaine Showalter＇s A Literature of Their Own： British Women Novelists From Bront~ to Lessing is a pioneering masterpiece in feminism studies. The book impresses the reader with Showalter＇s groundwork to revive the interest in long-forgotten women writers in British literature history. Showalter＇s work is indeed a kind of rediscovery, mapping widely rather than mining deeply the territory of women＇s writing. In a sense, feminist criticism came of age with this book.
文摘Farm is a vital image in Doris Lessing’s fiction,which is also a result of colonial space production.Through a series of discriminative land policies in a colonial society,the white farmers implement labour exploitation towards natives.Meanwhile,this space also presents various contradictions among whites.Moreover,colonial space production also leads to the deconstruction of natural space.Lessing’s farm writing reveals her nostalgia of the natural landscape when the farm hasn’t been involved with the capitalist space production and her concern for human beings’unity.
基金This article is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(SWU1709448).
文摘In the 1950s,international division of labor began to expand in the context of globalization,which is illustrated by the expansion of labor division in the global Coffee industry in The Summer before the Dark.From the perspective of globalization,Lessing vividly reproduced the urban division space caused by the influence of mobility(generally referring to the horizontal flow of mobile individuals and capital)in Britain when widespread inflation and strikes happening,resulting in social polarization and a series of loss of experiences.They not only reflect the declining imperial image of Britain while the colonies successively declare independence,but also indicate the mental state of British citizens under the impact of globalization.
基金Supported by Foundation of Hainan University(No.hdjpk201903).Title:College English I(2019 Hainan University High-level On-line Courses.)。
文摘Doris Lessing's short story--One off the Short List,like most of her famed novels,is a manifestation of individual's living state in the lonely and absurd world.In this thesis,the writer attempts to interpret this story from the view of Sartrean existentialism by analyzing the middle aged protagonist's special journey of exploring himself with suffering of being“others”so as to indicate Lessing's pessimistic attitude to modern people's existence.
文摘Doris Lessing's novels had a profound influence on the feminist movement, but she denied a label"feminism". She is against the practical interpretation of the literary works as a propaganda tool for a social movement. Her novels concern about the survival of women, thinking about women's freedom, and not limited to the discussion of gender issues. Feminism is only one of the themes of its work, and it is often combined with other themes. She started by paying attention to women's survival, but the final purpose is to care for human existence.
文摘Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is a renowned writer in the contemporary British literary scene.Her debut novel The Grass is Singing is based on a case in which a black manservant kills a white mistress who is poor and mentally unbalanced.Doris Lessing arranges a tangible form of perception for the expression of the colonial discourse in the work by seeking the relationship between spatial structure and the writer’s value.This paper focuses on the spatial writing in The Grass is Singing and analyses it in depth with reference to the spatial critical theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault.The oppressed and enslaved characters in the novel are analysed from three perspectives:physical space,social space and mental space respectively to explore how power oppression is made visible through space and the writer’s critique of colonial relations and racial discrimination as well as unequal gender relations.
文摘The article intends to interpret The Grass Is Singing from the perspective of ecofeminism and analyze the unequal relationships between man and nature,man and woman,the white race and the black race.
文摘Doris Lessing is a famous British female writer.Her short fiction to room 19 depicts the heroine Susan Rawing's tragic fate.The article makes an analysis on the feminine psychological need in the marriage from four aspects:Spiritual Freedom,Financially independent,interpersonal communication,mutual faith.
文摘The Grass Is Singing has aroused great attention since its publication in 1950.The scholars,domestic and overseas,have studied it from various theoretical perspectives,such as feminism,post-colonialism,eco-feminism,psychoanalysis,feminist geography and archetypal criticism.They mainly focus on the form of Lessing’s artistic creation,her feminist attitude,her philosophy of life and her colonial position.This thesis intends to summarize the previous research results in recent years and then to find the space left to analyze The Grass Is Singing.
文摘Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a feminist or anti-feminist, as a science fiction writer or a realist who lost her way, as a Marxist or a reactionary, as a British writer or a postcolonial one. Lessing’s border-crossing not only lies in her different genres of writing or in different novels, but even in a single comparatively traditional novel. The Summer Before the Dark is a representative work of Lessing’s women portrayal transition from focusing on their outside world exploration to on their inner world seeking. This essay tries to look at the content and form of the novel, and to illustrate that Lessing’s border-crossing is also fulfilled in one single novel. She successfully crosses the border of convention and innovation： conventional in content, while innovative in form.
文摘The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is considered one of the most outstanding works of literature after World War II.Interest in ethnic identity has been heightened.The book is recognized as an introspective reflection of the spiritual crisis suffered by diaspora people and societal crises of the time.The thesis will examine the oppression imposed by dominant white group by exploring the transformation of diasporic white individuals’identity.
