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Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal The Mother’s Son
By James Martell
Copyright 2019
188 Pages
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Routledge
186 Pages
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Routledge
186 Pages
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Routledge
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Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Seen through this maternal relation, their writing appears as the product of an "anxiety" rising not from paternal influence, but from the violence... Read more
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Biography
James Martell is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Lyon College. He is the co-editor—together with Arka Chattopadhyay—of Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (Roman Books, 2013), and—together with Fernanda Negrete—of the special issue of the bilingual journal Samuel Beckett: Today/Aujourd’hui titled, "Beckett beyond Words" (2018). He has published articles on Derrida, Deleuze, Beckett, and the cinema of Béla Tarr.
"Overall, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal: The Mother’s Son is an important reconsideration of numerous canonical male-written modernist texts, including Derrida’s own. Through the lens of Derridean deconstruction, it exposes the effects of, and thus validates the power within the ever present maternal." - Ashley Byczkowski, Nardin Academy
