| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction. Explaining and exploring the dead or absent mother / Berit Åström -- Part I. Theorizing the absent mother. The lady vanishes: the rise of the spectral mother / Marilyn Francus -- Part II. The absent mother as protector and advisor. Saintly protection: the postmortem mothers of medieval hagiography / Mary Beth Long -- 'Be war be my wo': Gaymor and her mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure / Amanda Bohne -- Dead mothers and absent stepmothers in Slovak and Romani fairy tales / Katarina Labudova -- 'A dumme thynge': the posthumous voice as rhetoric in the mothers' legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin / Ailsa Grant Ferguson -- Part III. Shakespeare's absent mothers revisited. 'Born in a tempest when my mother died': Shakespeare's motherless daughters / Jess Hamlet -- Ophelia's mother: the phantom of maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet / Rebecca Potter and Elizabeth Ann Mackay -- Missing mothers on the page and stage: Hamlet and Henry V / Anna Fraser Mackenzie -- Part IV. The absent mother as expendable, or a threat. A side of family, hold the mother: Dare Wright and her fictive kin in the lonely doll series / Heather Brown-Hudson -- Dead, but not gone: mother and othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh's The Good Neighbors / Kirsten Møllegaard -- Victims and villains: the legacy of mother blame in violent-eye American literature. / Joanna Wilson-Scott -- Symbolic matricide gone awry: on absent and--maybe even worse--present mothers in horror movies / Eike Träger -- 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 / Rebecca Feasey -- Marginalizing motherhood: postfeminist fathers and dead mothers in animated film / Berit Åström |
| Summary |
This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, children's literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 26, 2017) |
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Absentee mothers -- History
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English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
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English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Absentee mothers
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English literature -- Old English
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English poetry -- Old English
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319490373 |
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3319490370 |
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3319490362 |
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9783319490366 |
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