Waters, Melanie (2023) What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 69 (4). pp. 593-613. ISSN 0026-7724
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Abstract
When Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was first published in 1962, it was instantly lauded as a timely novel. In this essay, I investigate what is timely about The Golden Notebook through an analysis of the novel's complex temporality. Taking the book's phenomenal critical legacy as a signal indication that its timeliness is yet to be exhausted, I explore how Lessing's provocative figurations of time illuminate the ideological and representational structures that confine Lessing and her characters. In doing so, I also gesture, speculatively, toward how these structures might be subverted in the future.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | L900 Others in Social studies Q100 Linguistics W800 Imaginative Writing |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | John Coen |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2022 13:07 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2024 08:15 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49002 |
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