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What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook.

  • Published In: Modern Fiction Studies, 2023, v. 69, n. 4. P. 593 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Waters, Melanie 3 of 3

Abstract

When Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was first published in 1962, it was instantly lauded as a timely novel. In this essay, I investigate what is timely about The Golden Notebook through an analysis of the novel's complex temporality. Taking the book's phenomenal critical legacy as a signal indication that its timeliness is yet to be exhausted, I explore how Lessing's provocative figurations of time illuminate the ideological and representational structures that confine Lessing and her characters. In doing so, I also gesture, speculatively, toward how these structures might be subverted in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modern Fiction Studies. 2023/12, Vol. 69, Issue 4, p593
  • Document Type:Literary Criticism
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0026-7724
  • DOI:10.1353/mfs.2023.a915958
  • Accession Number:174424667
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