Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal: From Yeats to Joyce

Stubbings, D.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-09-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349413669

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286788

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 249