Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

526. Doris Lessing and Modernism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Horner, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Doris Lessing Society

Presiding: Tonya M. Krouse, Northern Kentucky Univ.

1. “The Synergy of Gender and Vision in Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor and The Fifth Child,” Debrah K. Raschke, Southeast Missouri State Univ.

2. “The Golden Notebook and Modernist Exhaustion,” C. Brook Miller, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris

3. “‘Beyond the Personal’: Lessing’s Ethic of Impersonality in The Memoirs of a Survivor,” Cornelius Collins, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

4. “Making Up in Rhys and Lessing: Modernist Aesthetics and Postcolonial Female Subjectivity,” Tonya M. Krouse

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