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

by Diane Stubbings

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333760263
• ISBN13: 9780333760260
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"