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Pagination: 245 p.
Publikationsdatum: 1992
Sprache: deutsch
Affiliation: UK00150; Institut fuer Romanistik;
Universitaet Klagenfurt
Begutachter: Schulz-Buschhaus, U.
Meter, H.
Akad. Grad: Thesis (Dr. phil.)
Klassifikation: G0332 (Literatur: Romanische)
Schlagworte deutsch: MUTTERGESCHICHTEN; DAUDET, ALPHONSE; DURAS, MARGUERITE; 
SARRAUTE, NATHALIE;
Schlagworte englisch: MOTHER STORIES; DAUDET, ALPHONSE; DURAS, MARGUERITE; 
SARRAUTE, NATHALIE;

Zusammenfassung englisch:
The figure of the 'bad' mother arrived on the literary scene at the same time 
as the model of the modern concept of the 'good' mother was completed, and then 
accepted as generally valid. At the center of this concept is mother love, 
constant and unconditional - a feeling that had first to be 'discovered' and 
then during the following three centuries would be moved from a marginal theme 
to the decisive one of women's lives. This development is illustrated by the 
examples of Mme de Sevigne, Mme d'Epinay, Balzac's 'Memoires de deux jeunes 
mariees' and Michelet's 'La Femme'. From this social- historical background 
literary texts from the end of the 19th century (Daudet, Valles, Renard) and 
the 20th century (Sarraute, Duras) are analysed, texts that question this ideal 
through its opposite, whereby attention is drawn equally to the what and the 
how: what makes a 'bad' mother? What are her 'sins'? What is she held 
responsible for? What is the author's mise en scene like? From which 
perspective is she examined? Which language, which ecriture does the author 
choose in order to speak and write about a subject that especially in the 19th 
century was new and provocative. The texts show how surprisingly quickly 
literature frees itself from an expected and accusing discourse in order to 
search for new forms for the confrontation with the theme of the 'bad' mother 
which has increasingly become not a moral theme but an existential one. This 
study, then, attempts to delineate this process of the slow breaking down of 
the static concept of mother ('good' mother - 'bad' mother) on the one hand 
and, on the other, of the traditional forms of narrative