WHAT DOES LESSING MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Lessing
Lessing is a surname of Slavic origin, originally Lessigk meaning woodman. Lessing may refer to: A German family of writers, artists, musicians and politicians who can be traced back to a Michil Lessigk mentioned in 1518 as being a linen weaver in Jahnsdorf by Chemnitz. The family includes: ▪ Johann Gottfried Lessing (1693-1770) pastor primarus in Kamenz, well respected, published theologian, translator and father of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) and Karl Gotthelf Lessing (1740–1812). Johann Gottfried's father Theophilus Lessing 1647-1735 mayor of Kamenz Robert Schumann's (the composer and pianist 1810-1856) four times great uncle, Johanne Sophie Susanna Lessing (1745-1818 daughter of Carl Heinrich Lessing 1713, a trumpeter) his grandmother. ▪ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), one of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment era, recognised as the world's first dramaturg, Germany's first dramatist and comedy playwright, champion for religious tolerance, friend of Moses Mendelssohn, critic for the Vossische Zeitung, translator and Shakespearean scholar. Today his own works appear as prototypes of the later developed bourgeois German drama.
Definition of Lessing in the English dictionary
The definition of Lessing in the dictionary is Doris. born 1919, English novelist and short-story writer, brought up in Rhodesia: her novels include the five-novel sequence Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, a series of science-fiction works, The Good Terrorist, and The Sweetest Dream. Nobel prize for literature 2007. Other definition of Lessing is Gotthold Ephraim. 1729–81, German dramatist and critic. His plays include Miss Sara Sampson, the first German domestic tragedy, and Nathan der Weise. He is noted for his criticism of French classical dramatists, and for his treatise on aesthetics Laokoon.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LESSING»
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The Golden Notebook: A Novel
Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.
Essays of critical interpretation portray views of Doris Lessing's work, including "The Golden Notebook," "Marriages," and "The Grass is Singing."
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Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris
Lessing
Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work.
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Doris
Lessing: The Poetics of Change
An original and compelling appraisal of this important international literary figure
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.
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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing
New essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing.
Barbara Fischer, Thomas C. Fox,
2005
A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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A literature of their own: British Women Novelists, from ...
This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as a postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British ...
This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LESSING»
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My favourite books: Brian Moore and Doris Lessing - Telegraph
In this extract from Antonia Fraser's The Pleasures of Reading, we look at the literary inspirations of Brian Moore and Doris Lessing. What did ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Colby College Museum of Art, Inland Hospital team up to X-ray …
Lauren Lessing points on Wednesday to a painting that Nina Roth-Wells restored for the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville. Staff photo ... «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Jul 15»
Locals find treasures at Randall's Ordinary sale
Nick Lessing, 11, reacts as his sister Michaela, 8, captures his final king to win a game of checkers they're playing on an antique game table ... «theday.com, Jul 15»
Kelowna lawyer involved in Ponzi scheme disbarred | Globalnews.ca
Lessing, 2013 LSBC 29, at par. 61, this consideration is wider than simply 'protecting the public from lawyers who might, for instance, steal ... «Globalnews.ca, Jul 15»
Jellyfish by Janice Galloway review – an exquisite short-story …
(The books that go up in flames include a significant amount of the female canon, not uncritically judged – Doris Lessing is described as ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Orange Tree Theatre ready to enter its new era
He cites the theatre's revival of Doris Lessing's Each His Own Wilderness as an example of a play working, despite "people saying that it couldn't". Mr Miller ... «Your Local Guardian, Jul 15»
Newport West MP Paul Flynn book top of MP's summer reading list
... Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman making the list as well as The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton and The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing. «South Wales Argus, Jul 15»
What MPs will be reading this summer: Paul Flynn, Boris Johnson …
... Lamentation by C J Samson, The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
An accessible ceiling: Montreal gallery brings Michelangelo to the …
The book was filled with images by Austrian photographer Erich Lessing, who had been granted access and permission to photograph the ... «National Post, Jul 15»
John Fowles's revealing correspondence with editor up for auction
... Cape from 1960 until the late 1980s and published authors including Doris Lessing, Philip Roth, Gabriel García Márquez and Joseph Heller. «The Guardian, Jul 15»