Scholarship and criticism on Doris Lessing

Marleen Barr.

• "Working at Loving: The Postseparatist Feminist Utopia." Actes du XIe colloque de CERLI, January 26-27 1990. In Eros, Science Fiction, Fantastique Aix-en-Provence: Universite de Provence, 1991. pages 179-189. about Doris Lessing, Pamela Sargent, and Joan Slonczewski.

Nancy Topping Bazin.

• "British Reviews of Shikasta." Doris Lessing Newsletter v. 4 (Winter 1980): pp. 7, 9-15.

Bullock, C. J., and Kay L. Stewart.

• "Post-Party Politics: Doris Lessing's Novels of the Seventies." Massachusetts Review 20 (1979): 245-57.

Byrd, Deborah.

• "A Permanent Escape from the Underworld: Doris Lessing's Use of the Demeter / Kore Myth in Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Paper given at the mid-Hudson MLA Meeting, Poughkeepsie, New York, November 23, 1983.

Clare, Mariette.

• Doris Lessing and Women's Appropriation of Science Fiction. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, 1984.

Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg.

• "The Marriage of Inner and Outer Space in Doris Lessing's Shikasta." Science Fiction Studies v. 17 (1990) pp. 221-238.
• Spiritual Explorations in the Works of Doris Lessing (Greenwood Press, 1999) (Contributions to the Study of SF and Fantasy, no. 81). Includes:

Seeing Differently: "The Spiritual Immersed within the Everyday" - Ages of Anxiety: The Diaries of Jane Somers (Virginia Tiger) - Pursuing Difference in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five (Eral G. Ingersol) - Approaching the Apocalypse: Individual and Cultural Collapse and the Seeds of New Vision - Androgyny or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision in the Early 70s (Nancy Topping Bazin) - Cabalistic Gardens: Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor (Debrah Raschke) - White Settlers in the Heart of Empire: Visionary Power in Lessing's The Four-Gated City (Cherry Clayton) - Doris Lessing's Prophetic Voice in Shikasta: Cassandra or Sybil ? (Jeannette Weber) - Beyond the Binary: "It Isn't Either or..It's and, and, and, and" - The Whirlpool and the Fountain: Inner Growth and Love, Again (Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis) - "A Question of Wholes": Spiritual Intersecting, Universal Re-Visions in the Work of Doris Lessing (Melanie Hunter & Darby McIntosh) - Considering the Stars: The Expanding Universe of Doris Lessing's Work (Josna E. Rege)

Roberta Rubenstein.

• The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.

Lorna Sage.

• Doris Lessing. London: Methuen, 1983.

Virginia Tiger.

• "Candid Shot." Doris Lessing Newsletter 8 (Fall 1984): 5.
• "'The Words Had Been Right and Necessary' Doris Lessing's Transformations of Utopian and Dystopian Modalities in The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Style (DeKalb, Illinois), v. 27 (Spring 1993), pages 63-80.

Betsy Draine.

• "Changing Forms: Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor." Studies in the Novel, v. 11 (1979): pp. 51-62.

Fishburn, Katherine.

• The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing. Westport, Connectictu: Greenwood, 1985.
• "Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell: Science Fiction or Psycho-Drama." Science-Fiction Studies v 44 (1988): pp. 48-60.

Finney, Kathe Davis. Kathe Finney Davis?

• "The Days of Future Past, or Utopian's Lessing and Le Guin Fight Future Nostalgia," in Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Academic Programming at Chicon IV.) (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983; San Bernadino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1983), pages 31-40.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

• "The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ." Frontiers Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 1979): Pages 1-8.

Hazleton, Lesley.

• "Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism, and 'Space Fiction.'" New York Times Sunday Magazine 25 July 1982: pages 20-21.

Earl G. Ingersoll.

• "The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." in Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts edited by Allienne R. Becker. Westport: Greenwood, 1996, pp. 39-47.

Jacobs, Naomi.

• "Beyond Stasis and Symmetry: Lessing, Le Guin, and the Remodeling of Utopia." Extrapolation 29, no. 1 (1988): pages 33-45; reprinted in Utopian Studies II, edited by Michael S. Cummings and Nicholas D. Smith, editors; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989: pp. 109-117.

Jacobs, Naomi.

• "Beyond Stasis and Symmetry: Lessing, Le Guin, and the Remodeling of Utopia." Extrapolation 29, no. 1 (1988): pages 33-45; reprinted in Utopian Studies II, edited by Michael S. Cummings and Nicholas D. Smith, editors; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989: pp. 109-117.

Knapp, Mona.

• Doris Lessing. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984.

Klein, Carole.

• Doris Lessing: In This World But Not Of It (Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1999). Biography, 448 pp.