Publication
Imprint: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997. Responsibility: Muge Galin. OCLC Number: 35305190. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
Call number
LS / Galin
ISBN
0791433846 / 9780791433843
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Named Person:Doris Lessing
Description: Between East and West applies Sufi thought to some of Doris Lessing's novels and studies the manifestations of Sufi influence on Lessing. Various Sufi-like characters and their unconventional lifestyles are evaluated and explicated for Western readers unfamiliar with Sufism. This book also evaluates the role of spirituality in Lessing's work and considers the implications of taking Lessing's Sufism seriously when reading her works on when doing Lessing criticism. It also impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our Western ways of life.
Contents:
Preface: Toward Border-Crossing --
Introduction: Lessing and Sufism between East and West --
1. Sufism in Lessing's Work --
2. Lessing's Vision --
3. Lessing's Teaching Stories --
4. Lessing between Spirituality and Science --
App. A. Tasawwuf in Islam --
App. B. Scholarship on Lessing's Mysticism.
FY1998
Description: Between East and West applies Sufi thought to some of Doris Lessing's novels and studies the manifestations of Sufi influence on Lessing. Various Sufi-like characters and their unconventional lifestyles are evaluated and explicated for Western readers unfamiliar with Sufism. This book also evaluates the role of spirituality in Lessing's work and considers the implications of taking Lessing's Sufism seriously when reading her works on when doing Lessing criticism. It also impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our Western ways of life.
Contents:
Preface: Toward Border-Crossing --
Introduction: Lessing and Sufism between East and West --
1. Sufism in Lessing's Work --
2. Lessing's Vision --
3. Lessing's Teaching Stories --
4. Lessing between Spirituality and Science --
App. A. Tasawwuf in Islam --
App. B. Scholarship on Lessing's Mysticism.
FY1998
Physical description
xxiii, 280 p.; 24 cm
Description
Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.
Language
Original language
English