Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal

From Yeats to Joyce

• Author(s): D. Stubbings,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 249
• ISBN_10: 023028678X
  ISBN_13: 9780230286788
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... 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.