ISBN:
9783319490373
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Åström, Berit The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination : Missing, Presumed Dead
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Literature, Modern
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction-Explaining and Exploring the Dead or Absent Mother -- Absent Mothers in Online Media -- Mothers in Scholarly Research - Present and Absent -- The Author's Mother - Revenge, Fear and Longing -- Psychoanalysis - Maternal Power, Individuation and Matricide -- Historic Specificity and Socio-Cultural Influences -- Mother's Death as Narrative Device -- Analyzing the Dead/Absent Mother-Trope -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I Theorizing the Absent Mother -- The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II The Absent Mother as Protector and Advisor -- Saintly Protection: The Postmortem 'Mothers' of Medieval Hagiography -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 'Be War Be My Wo': Gaynour and Her Mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales -- Slovak and Romani Folk Tales -- Children's Stories -- Mothers' Stories -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works Cited -- 'A dumme thynge': The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers' Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III Shakespeare's Absent Mothers Revisited -- 'Born in a tempest when my mother died': Shakespeare's Motherless Daughters -- Beatrice -- Marina -- Perdita -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Ophelia's Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage: Hamlet and Henry V -- Gender and Genre: Mothers in Criticism -- Deconstructing Absence and Silence -- Missing Mothers in the Shakespearean Context -- Wives and/or Mothers? -- Directing Henry V: Absence and Implications -- Editing Hamlet -- Note -- Works Cited -- Part IV The Absent Mother as Expendable, or a Threat
Abstract:
A Side of Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series -- Works Cited -- Dead, But Not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh's The Good Neighbors -- Situating the Missing Mother as Narrative Script -- The Good Neighbors: The Missing Fairy Mother -- Mother Myths, Mother Bodies -- Gender Fiction and Maternal Self-Sacrifice -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature -- Works Cited -- Symbolic Matricide Gone Awry: On Absent and-Maybe Even Worse-Present Mothers in Horror Movies -- A Mother's Love -- Norman's Frustration -- Billy's Rage -- Carrie's Drama -- Ryan's Gender Trouble -- A Mother's Dilemma -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part V Absent Mothers on the Big and Small Screen in the New Millennium -- Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role -- Single Fathers and the Entertainment Arena -- Looking for Mother -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film -- Twentieth-Century Animated Films - Fathers and Daughters -- Changing Definitions of Fatherhood -- Twenty-First Century Films - Fathers and Sons -- The Postfeminist Widower Becomes Heroic Father -- Outcompeting Mother -- The Mothering Father and Onscreen Violence -- A World Without Mothers - Fathers Teaching Fathers -- Conclusion - What Is a Family? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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