A Study About Narrative Tension Of Doirs Lessing’s Novels

Doris Lessing is a worldwide impact novelist in the British contemporary literary world.Her novels get the extensive favor of many readers because of changeable writing skills,special point of view, unique conception and incisive intellection. With the integrated use ofnarrative theories, tension theories and deconstruction, the thesis attempt to make a detailedanalysis of narration on the basis of Doris’ novels. It approaches a subject of tensionperformance and profound connotation from the angle of narrative tension.This dissertation includes three sections as following: introduction, main body andconclusion. The introduction explains at first basis of selecting the title, the present domesticand overseas condition, innovations and research methods. The thesis has been incorporatedby three chapters to concentrate on narrative tension of Doris Lessing’s novel. The firstchapter is devoted largely to a intensive study of writing technique, investigating its uniquefeature of the coexistence of its narrative form. In the second chapter, this thesis is discussedon Doris Lessing’s narrative thoughts from three perspectives as love, politics and ethics, inorder to draw out the source of tension and the influence and significance of the tension onnovel form. The third chapter expatiates the value of Doris Lessing novel narrative tension inpoetics from two aspect deconstruction and narrative art.In brief, Lessing’s novels not only fly her own colors on the exploration of narrativetension, but also have breadth and depth of ideology. Based on carrying forward traditionalnarrative principles, Lessing constantly brings forth new ideas practice in the writing skills ofModernism and Post–Modernism, which has the essential and inherent connection with thesolicitudes and tangle of the real world. Consequently, narrative tension of Lessing’s novelpresents its unique artistic charm and value of poetics.