Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martin Gaite

First published in 1990, this book assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in 2 pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martin Gaite: 1) The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and Retahilas (1974) and 2) The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and The Back Room (1978).