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Cover image for book Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite

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

By:Linda E. Chown
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367334352
eText ISBN:9781000639063
Edition:1
Copyright:1990
Format:Reflowable

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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.