Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal: From Yeats to Joyce (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333760260)

Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal argues that a focus on the construction of mother-figures in Irish culture illuminates the extraordinary achievement of the Irish modernists. Essentially, the seminal Irish modernists - Moore, Joyce, Synge, Yeats and O'Casey - resisted those mother-figures sanctioned by cultural discourses, re-writing her in order to elude her. In this, they not only re-constituted language and representation, they accessed and re-figured their own creative selves.

Author: D. Stubbings
ISBN-10: 0333760263
ISBN-13: 9780333760260
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2000
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d