Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

TitleCanopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
Year for Search1983
AuthorsLessing, Doris [May](1919-2013)
Date Published1983
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author
Annotation

The last of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 (2) and 1982 Lessing. This volume is a satire on the power of emotion, particularly as reflected in speech, to overwhelm reason. A Canopean is infected with "undulant Rhetoric" and treated in the Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases. 

Additional Publishers

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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Author Note

The English female author (1919-2013) was born in Persia, now Iran, and lived in what was then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for many years. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

Full Text

1983 Lessing, Doris [May] (b. 1919). Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

The last of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 (2) and 1982 Lessing. This volume is a satire on the power of emotion, particularly as reflected in speech, to overwhelm reason. A Canopean is infected with “undulant Rhetoric” and treated in the Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases. The English female author was born in Persia, now Iran, and lived in what was then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for many years. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.