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Writing mothers and daughters : renegotiating the mother in Western European narratives by women
- Title
- Writing mothers and daughters : renegotiating the mother in Western European narratives by women / edited by Adalgisa Giorgio.
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Giorgio, Adalgisa.
- Description
- xiii, 258 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the preoedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s had an important impact on feminist literature. This book offers a systematic study of this theme in western European fiction.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Mothers in literature
- Mothers and daughters in literature
- European fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- European fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Europe > History > 20th century
- 17.93 themes and motives in literature
- European fiction
- European fiction > Women authors
- Women and literature
- Tochter Motiv
- Literatur
- Mutter Motiv
- Moeder-dochter-relaties
- Letterkunde
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Moeders
- Dochters
- Europe
- Westeuropa
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Mothers and daughters in Western Europe: mapping the territory ; Writing the mother-daughter relationship: psychoanalysis, culture, and literary criticism / Adalgisa Giorgio -- Towards a female symbolic: re-presenting mothers and daughters in contemporary Spanish narrative by women / Christine Arkinstall -- 'Horror of the unlived life': mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Irish women's fiction / Anne Fogarty -- Passion for the mother: conflicts and idealisations in contemporary Italian narrative by women / Adalgisa Giorgio -- Writing mother-daughter relationality in the French context / Alex Hughes -- Bad daughters and unmotherly mothers: the new family plot in the contemporary English novel / Paola Splendore -- Power and powerlessness: mothers and daughters in postware German and Austrian literature / Chris Weedon.
- ISBN
- 1571819533
- 9781571819536
- 1571813411
- 9781571813411
- LCCN
- 2001025791
- 2027/heb.08657
- OCLC
- ocm46576229
- 46576229
- SCSB-14707696
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library