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

by D. Stubbings

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349413669
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/19/2000
Edition description:	1st ed. 2000
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

DIANE STUBBINGS is a writer and researcher.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION Mother-Ireland Calls Me PART II: SOCIAL SPACES Home and Hearth: the Mother's Social Boundaries PART II: ON THE EDGE OF DISORDER Origin, Space, Opposition: Constructing, Containing and Privileging the Maternal PART IV: SYMBOLIC SPACES Modernism and the Maternal: Appropriation of the Mother's Space and the Breakdown of the Symbolic Conclusion References Index

Editorial Reviews

Stubbings (a writer and researcher) explores the role of the mother in the work of modern Irish writers. Using a psychoanalytic approach, the study is divided into three parts: the social context of the mother-figure in the work of George Moore, Yeats and Joyce; the role of the mother-figure in disrupting social and symbolic structures, particularly in the works of Synge and O'Casey; and aspects of creativity traditionally identified with modernism, with a focus on poetry, especially that of Yeats. The work concludes with a discussion of . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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