LEADER 04465nam 22007095 450 001 9910255067803321 005 20251117002210.0 010 $a9783319490373 010 $a3319490370 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-49037-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000061427 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-49037-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4913691 035 $a(Perlego)3496570 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000061427 100 $a20170712d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination $eMissing, Presumed Dead /$fedited by Berit Åström 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 264 p.) 311 08$a9783319490366 311 08$a3319490362 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother -- 3. Saintly Protection: The Post-Mortem 'Mothers'of Medieval Hagiography -- 4. 'Be War Be My Wo': Gaynour and Her Mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure -- 5. 'A dumme thynge': The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers' Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin -- 6. Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales -- 7. 'Born in a Tempest when My Mother Died': Shakespeare's Motherless Daughter -- 8. Ophelia's Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakepseare's Hamlet -- 9. Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage: Hamlet and Henry V -- 10. A Side of the Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series -- 11. Dead, but not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh's The Good Neighbours -- 12. Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature -- 13. Symbolic Matricide goneAwry: On Absent and - Maybe Even Worse - Present Mothers in Horror Movies -- 14. Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role -- 15. Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film.-. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aSociology 606 $aSocial groups 606 $aMotion pictures$xHistory 606 $aChildren's literature 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600 606 $aCultural Theory 606 $aCultural History 606 $aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging 606 $aFilm and TV History 606 $aChildren's Literature 606 $aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aSocial groups. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 615 0$aChildren's literature. 615 0$aEuropean literature 615 14$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging. 615 24$aFilm and TV History. 615 24$aChildren's Literature. 615 24$aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature. 676 $a306.01 702 $aA?stro?m$b Berit$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255067803321 996 $aThe Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination$92119188 997 $aUNINA