Doris Lessing’s Fight against Philistinism and the Practice of Labeling

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.36How to use a DOI?

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Doris Lessing; Philistinism; the Practice of Labeling

Abstract

Being a border-crossing writer, Doris Lessing constantly complaints about the following two limitations of British literature: the philistinism and the habit of labeling. Textual analysis proves that as a protest against the philistinism in British literature, Lessing makes great efforts in hybridizing her writing, in particular, by resorting to diversified subject matters. While challenging conventions and the practice of labeling, Lessing holds that it is necessary to change the habit of mind and shows her strong distrust in literary critics. For her, all kinds of definition or labeling just mean imprisonments or limitations.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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