Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal: The Mother's Son

by James Martell

Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, 　Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal　proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Seen through this maternal relation, their writing appears as the product of an "anxiety" rising not from paternal influence, but from the violence done to their mother in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032091770
• ISBN13: 9781032091778
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"