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Moderns and their Mothers' Reach
- Author(s):
- Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
- Date:
- 2006
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Twentieth century, Criticism--Psychological aspects, Psychoanalysis and literature, Drama, Drama--Technique, Affect (Psychology)
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- tennessee williams, arthur miller, cat on a hot tin roof, death of a saleman, lloyd demause, 20th-century American literature, Psychological literary criticism, Dramaturgy, Affect
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/320a-6y25
- Abstract:
- Discusses Tennessee WIlliams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" in regards to Ann Douglas's thesis of Americans appropriating the concept of terrible, truth-telling, phallicly-empowered "monsters" in order to lay low the influence of mothers whose influence over their children has stretched way outside the bounds of childhood and adolescence. These works are explored as "sites," are considered such as much as physical spaces such as churches, temples, in which readers program themselves -- subtly, slowly, alter their brain registers -- so like we now assume is the case with repeated visits "alt" mediums they "emerge" "outside" with different "programs" as to how to engage with "reality."
- Notes:
- MA graduate paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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