Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martin Gaite
This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen MartÃn Gaite: 1) Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and MartÃn Gaite’s RetahÃlas (1974) and 2) Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and MartÃn Gaite’s The Back Room (1978). Three major structural divisions facilitate exam...
This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen MartÃn Gaite: 1) Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and MartÃn Gaite’s RetahÃlas (1974) and 2) Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and MartÃn Gaite’s The Back Room (1978). Three major structural divisions facilitate exam...
