Hajer Elarem PhD Student at University of Franche Comté, France Department of English Literature and Gender Studies CRIT Center (Centre Interdisciplinaire et Transculturel de Besançon, France)/ Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Studies Center of Besançon, France Abstract: If the bildungsroman has traditionally been considered as an androcentric1 literary genre−a linear narrative that describes the progress of a…
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Doris Lessing’s Leap into Apocalyptic Fiction
Tasleem Ahmad War Doris Lessing is the writer who does not need much introduction as she has been in news for a long time and not for ordinary reasons. She has bagged number of awards starting from Somerset Maugham Award in 1954 and ending with Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. In addition to these…
Seeing Herself through Literature: Martha Quest’s Reading Habit in Doris Lessing’s The Children of Violence
Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed Assistant Professor and Head Department of English Language and Literature International Islamic University Chittagong Dhaka Campus, Bangladesh & Sultana Jahan Assistant Professor Department of English Northern University Bangladesh Abstract: Most of Doris Lessing’s female protagonists are widely read and they frequently think in literary, especially fiction, terms. Martha Quest, the protagonist of…