Known as the literary evergreen tree,Doris Lessing is a prolific and significant British novelist,poet,playwright,librettist,biographer as well as short story writer.Meanwhile,her works cover a wide range of subjects ...Known as the literary evergreen tree,Doris Lessing is a prolific and significant British novelist,poet,playwright,librettist,biographer as well as short story writer.Meanwhile,her works cover a wide range of subjects and reflect deep implications because she is good at observing and capturing human subtle and rich emotion.A Woman on a Roof is a famous short story of Doris Lessing,and studies on it are also not enough.Therefore,this paper intends to make a detailed and theoretical analysis on the suffering and resistance in Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof from the perspective of Foucault’s disciplinary power theory.Through the analysis of different victims in the story,a conclusion is to be brought forth that a disciplinary society is permeated with the power relations and resistance spirit.展开更多
文摘Known as the literary evergreen tree,Doris Lessing is a prolific and significant British novelist,poet,playwright,librettist,biographer as well as short story writer.Meanwhile,her works cover a wide range of subjects and reflect deep implications because she is good at observing and capturing human subtle and rich emotion.A Woman on a Roof is a famous short story of Doris Lessing,and studies on it are also not enough.Therefore,this paper intends to make a detailed and theoretical analysis on the suffering and resistance in Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof from the perspective of Foucault’s disciplinary power theory.Through the analysis of different victims in the story,a conclusion is to be brought forth that a disciplinary society is permeated with the power relations and resistance spirit.
