Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite

Linda E. Chown

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000639063
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite: 1) Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and Martín Gaite's Retahílas (1974) and 2) Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and Martín Gaite's The Back Room (1978). Three major structural divisions facilitate examining implications of the novels for 1) feminism 2) literary narrative and 3) the lives of people-at-large.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I: Lives
• Section II: Women and Authority
• Chapter 3: Depsychologicalization
• Chapter 4: Narrating “She” and “I”
• SECTION III: MIDLIFE
• CHAPTER FIVE: MIDLIFE IN LITERATURE
• Chapter 6: Mind of One's Own
• SECTION IV: LANGUAGE AND THE TALES
• Chapter 7: The Ways of Language
• Chapter 8: Through a Wall Darkly
• Chapter 9: On the Edge
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• Bibliography