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The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination : Missing, Presumed Dead

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The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination : Missing, Presumed Dead

Absent Mothers in Online Media Mothers in Scholarly Research - Present and Absent The Author’s Mother - Revenge, Fear and Longing Psychoanalysis - Maternal Power, Individuation and Matricide Historic Specificity and Socio-Cultural Influences Mother’s Death as Narrative Device Analyzing the Dead/Absent Mother-Trope Notes Works Cited I Theorizing the Absent Mother The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother Notes Works Cited II The Absent Mother as Protector and Advisor Saintly Protection: The Postmortem ‘Mothers’ of Medieval Hagiography ‘Be War Be My Wo’: Gaynour and Her Mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales Slovak and Romani Folk Tales Children’s Stories Mothers’ Stories Conclusion Note Works Cited ‘A dumme thynge’: The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers’ Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin III Shakespeare’s Absent Mothers Revisited ‘Born in a tempest when my mother died’: Shakespeare’s Motherless Daughters Beatrice Marina Perdita Notes Works Cited Ophelia’s Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage: Hamlet and Henry V Gender and Genre: Mothers in Criticism Deconstructing Absence and Silence Missing Mothers in the Shakespearean Context Wives and/or Mothers?Directing Henry V: Absence and Implications Editing Hamlet Note Works Cited IV The Absent Mother as Expendable, or a Threat A Side of Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series Dead, But Not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh’s The Good Neighbors Situating the Missing Mother as Narrative Script The Good Neighbors: The Missing Fairy Mother Mother Myths, Mother Bodies Gender Fiction and Maternal Self-Sacrifice Notes Works Cited Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature Symbolic Matricide Gone Awry: On Absent and—Maybe Even Worse—Present Mothers in Horror Movies A Mother’s Love Norman’s Frustration Billy’s Rage Carrie’s Drama Ryan’s Gender Trouble A Mother’s Dilemma Notes Works Cited V Absent Mothers on the Big and Small Screen in the New Millennium Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role Single Fathers and the Entertainment Arena Looking for Mother Conclusion Notes Works Cited Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film Twentieth-Century Animated Films - Fathers and Daughters Changing Definitions of Fatherhood Twenty-First Century Films - Fathers and Sons The Postfeminist Widower Becomes Heroic Father Outcompeting Mother The Mothering Father and Onscreen Violence A World Without Mothers - Fathers Teaching Fathers Conclusion - What Is a Family?Notes Works Cited

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