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The Use of Fantasy in Doris Lessing’s Selected Fictions

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Doris Lessing (1919 – 2013) was one of the greatest British writers and the oldest winner to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1969, she started to use fantasy in her works as a mode of fictional expression. Fantasy is a genre in literature that contains supernatural phenomena in fictional worlds. This paper’s central concern is also the use of fantasy in her works. For her, fantasy is a tool used to separate present day reality. Fantasy allows her to cope with themes that could not have been used in realistic works. This paper explores the question of fantasy in Lessing’s selected novels.

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Periodical:
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 61)
Pages:
126-128
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.61.126
Citation:
S. A. Mirenayat and E. Soofastaei, "The Use of Fantasy in Doris Lessing’s Selected Fictions", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 61, pp. 126-128, 2015
Online since:
October 2015
Authors:
Sayyed Ali Mirenayat, Elaheh Soofastaei
Keywords:
Fantasy, Language, Reality, Society, Sufism
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References:

[1] Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. London: Redwood Press Limited, (1972).

[2] --, The Four Gated City. London: Granada Publishing Limited, (1973).

[3] --, Briefing for a Descent into Hell. London: Jonathan Cape Limited, (1971).

[4] --, The Memoirs of a Survivor. London: The Octagon Press, (1974).

[5] Scott, Ann. The More Recent Writings: Sufism, Mysticism and Politics, in Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing, ed. Jenny Taylor, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1982).

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