Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Criticism

• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 6)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 3)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 170)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Review of African Laughter
    • Objects of Eros
    • Venus Observed
    • Review of Love, Again
    • Love, Again
    • Infectious Disease
    • Literature Is News That Stays News
    • Possessed by Love
    • Wild, Heady Days
    • Doris Lessing and the Millennium
    • The Unexamined Life
    • Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962
    • Basic Human Instincts
    • Lessons in Survival
    • An Interview with Doris Lessing
    • Review of Mara and Dann
    • A Truly Beastly Hero
    • Many Faiths, Many Stories
    • ‘Transformed and Translated’: The Colonized Reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos Space Fiction
    • Flesh and Bones: Eating, Not Eating and the Social Vision of Doris Lessing
    • The Alien
    • Not Responsible for Items Forgotten or Lost
    • A Brave Journey in Thought
    • Review of The Sweetest Dream
    • The Sweetest Dream
  • Further Reading
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 10)
  • Introduction
  • Beyond Ideology: Doris Lessing's Mature Vision
  • Intimations of the End
  • Mrs. Lessing's Vanishing Point
  • Roberta Rubenstein
  • Equal to the World
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 2)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 1)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 94)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Wor(l)ds within Words: Doris Lessing as Meta-Fictionist and Meta-Physician
    • 'Taking Hands and Dancing in (Dis)Unity': Story to Storied in Doris Lessing's 'To Room Nineteen' and 'A Room'
    • London Calling
    • The Art of Sympathy
    • A Dog's Life
    • Our Mothers' Gardens: Doris Lessing's 'Among the Roses'
    • Storytelling by Reluctant Extraction
    • She Had a Farm in Africa
    • Reality's Chaos, Translated Into Art
    • Memoirs of a Survivor
    • The Heart of Me
    • Looking Back at Lessing
    • Authority, Truthtelling, and Parody: Doris Lessing and 'the Book'
  • Further Reading
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 15)
  • Doris Lessing Out of Africa
  • Fantastic Lessing
  • Beyond the Catastrophe
  • Lessing's Fantasia
  • Paradise Regained
  • Synthetic Myth
  • Books and the Arts: 'The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five'
  • A Visionary Romance
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 22)
  • Introduction
  • New Short Stories: 'The Habit of Loving'
  • Little England
  • Short but Strong
  • Weary Wives and Lovers
  • The Eternal Moment
  • 'African Stories'
  • The City and the Veld: The Fiction of Doris Lessing
  • Doris Lessing's Use of Satire in 'The Summer before the Dark'
  • From Motherhood to Prophesy: Doris Lessing
  • Doris Lessing in the Visionary Mode
  • Spaced-Out
  • The Damaged Planet
  • Close Encounters of Some Kind
  • Books & Writers: 'The Sirian Experiments'
• Lessing, Doris (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Redeeming the Irrational: The Inexplicable Heroines of ‘A Sorrowful Woman’ and ‘To Room Nineteen.’
    • ‘Taking Hands and Dancing in (Dis)Unity’: Story to Storied in Doris Lessing's ‘To Room Nineteen’ and ‘A Room’
    • The Grass Is Singing (1950): African Stories (1964)
    • Doris Lessing's ‘One off the Short List’ and Leo Bellingham's ‘In for the Kill’
    • Mother-Daughter Passion and Rapture: The Demeter Myth in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing
    • Fable Traditions in the Stories of Doris Lessing and Bessie Head
    • Coming of Age in Zambesia
    • Lessing's ‘To Room Nineteen’
  • Further Reading