African and Islamic: Lessing’s theory of literature in “The Small Personal Voice”

• Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: PE English; PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages; PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/75008/1/75008_African%20and%20Islamic-%20abstract.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/75008/2/75008_African%20and%20Islamic-%20draft.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/75008/; http://dorislessing100.org/documents/27001838/27003021/DL+100+THE+WRITER%27S+QUEST+FINAL+PROGRAMME.pdf/812f7891-5d8a-e5a5-7fb5-179129b7e406

In “The Small Personal Voice” (1957), Doris Lessing celebrates novels that are based on nineteenth-century realism and writerly committedness and laments its absence in literary production. She adheres to a theory of literature that emanates from an understanding of good and evil and has an instruct...