Six. Maternal Love

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-117
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2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 246-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritu Bhandari ◽  
Alexandra Voorthuis ◽  
Rixt van der Veen ◽  
Dorothée Out ◽  
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg ◽  
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Author(s):  
Annemette Hejlsted

Kerstin Ekman is one of the greatest female authors in Nordic literature. In 1994, she was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for her novel "Events by the Water". This article makes a study of Ekman's masterpiece, examining how the novelist - by combining the strategies of the crime novel with those of melodrama - focuses on the concept of maternal love as an inherent and given value. What Ekman offers, the article concludes, is a revised humanist basis for evaluating maternal love as well as humans' relationship with each other and with Nature, based on a rethink of the human subject as the sum of memories.


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Simona Jișa

"The Relationship between Mother and Child in Staël’s Playwriting. The article aims to analyse the plays of Germaine de Staël Agar dans le désert, Geneviève de Brabant and La Sunamite, considered as serious dramas, brought together in the perspective of the maternal relationship. The maternal archetype follows the form of the mater dolorosa capable of the greatest sacrifices. The child is seen as being inseparable from the mother and is often an innocent victim of human sins. Passionate love as the essential coordinate of romanticism is replaced by maternal love and by the love of God. The plays have a clear moralizing value, but the pathos of declamation and the introspection, characteristic of romanticism, are well visible. Keywords: Germaine de Staël, theatre, maternal relationship, romanticism."


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