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1 online resource. |
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text file PDF |
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Lettre
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1/ An Overview of Motherhood -- 2. Disentangling Notions -- 3. A Mother's Vision and Love in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers -- 4. Mothers and Social Criticism in James Joyce's Dubliners -- 5. A Mother's 'Divided Self' in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse -- 6. "I'm a Cérébrale": A Mother's Isolation and Marginalization in Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight -- 7. From Modernism to Contemporary Literature: A Timeless Debate -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art and literature for centuries. Instead of focusing on the mother-child dyad as characterized primarily by maternal domination and the child' s submission, Marie Géraldine Rademacher insists on the definitional nuances of the term "narcissism" and considers the political and socio-economic context of the time in shaping these women's narcissistic behavior. The study thus inspires a more positive (re- )reading of the protagonists. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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In English. |
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941. |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
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Rhys, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rhys, Jean. |
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
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Narcissism in literature.
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Narcissism in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| ISBN |
3839449669 |
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9783839449660 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839449660 |
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