Literary Half-Lives

Roberta Rubenstein is Professor of Literature at American University, USA. She is the author of the pioneering study The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (1979). Her other books include Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction (1987); Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (2001); and Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View (2009). She has published more than thirty scholarly articles and book chapters on twentieth-century women writers, including Woolf, Lessing, Morrison, Atwood, Drabble, and others.

Introduction 1. Hall of Mirrors 2. Truth Values and Mining Claims 3. Plays and Power Plays 4. Will the Real Saul Green Please Stand Up? 5. A Rose by any other Name 6. Life in the Interior Zone 7. Poetic License and Poetic Justice 8. Variations on a Theme 9. Of Parent and Child Conclusion: His, Hers, Theirs