| Doris Lessing (1919-2013), the most important female writer following Virginia Woolf in Britain, was an evergreen tree in the literary world. Since her debut in1950, she had published more than50full-length, medium-length novels and collections of short stories, two autobiographies, as well as a large number of poems, plays, essays, literary theories and documentary writing. Among them, half of her short stories are about African life, which is also the essence of all of her short stories. Compared with the same subject matter of novels, her short stories "in miniature" reflect her pursuit and exploration as a serious writer in subject, theme and style.In the collection African Stories, she describes people and events on the African earth with personal experience, and reveals ancient African civilization. A slightly earlier touch on the subject of colonial rule and racism made her a representative of postcolonial writers to some extent. Taking the holistic approach on the collection said above as an example, the thesis aims at developing an integrative view of Lessing’s short stories.The thesis is composed of three parts:introduction, body and conclusion.The introduction part respectively presents Doris Lessing’s life and creation stages, research status domestic and overseas, as well as the research methods of the thesis.The body is divided into four chapters. The first chapter generalizes the argument by an overall analysis on the structure and grasp of the content; the following three chapters analyze the work from three angles: typical characters, integral environment and the recurring images respectively, illuminating the entire meaning.The conclusion is to summarize and sublimate the full text, summing up the overall artistic characteristics of her short stories writing and her persistence thereby. |
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