Naslov
Taxonomy of fears in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook

Autori
Miloš, Brigita ; Dulibić Paljar, Dubravka

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Skup
Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective: Fear, Resistance, Imagination

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 21.05.2018. - 25.05.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Doris Lessing, fear, taxonomy, The Golden Notebook
(Doris Lessing, fear, taxonomy, The Golden NOtebook)

Sažetak
In this presentation we will reflect on Doris Lessing’s seminal novel “The Golden Notebook”. Precisely, we’ll try to propose the reading of Lessing's novel in two different but closely related ways. One would consist of a taxonomic approach that regards the novel as an encyclopaedia of fear. This approach is induced by novel's formal and contentual features (breakthrough, fragmentation). On the other hand, we will argue that the overgrowth of motives and topos of fear in this narrative escalates into paralysis, or stultifying or delusion of fear itself, as a relevant (narrative) actor. The second approach is anti-therapeutic, and it is focused on the comparative analysis of the reception of the work in the time span since its publication to date.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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