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The use of fantasy in Doris Lessing's selected fictions
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Abstract 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 worl... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
reality; literature; phantasy; society; language
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Sufismus
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 126-128
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 61
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed