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Quitting Home
- Author(s):
- Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
- Date:
- 2006
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC Canadian, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
- Subject(s):
- Canadian literature, Literature, Modern, Criticism--Psychological aspects, Psychoanalysis and literature
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- sinclair ross, as for me and my house, Modernist literature, Psychological literary criticism
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/fxtx-3158
- Abstract:
- Sinclair Ross's "As For Me and My House" as a (nefarious) safe-space whereby readers can subsume themselves within a locale that promises the sense of being taken care of, that they experienced within the maternal home but on one condition: ready willingness to defer; acquiesce to "mother's" leadership. Written just before a culture pivoted from the nationalist -- return to "home" -- 1930s and soon war and post-war escape from this previously desired narrative, the escape practiced from within this simulacra clinging-back-to-home may have been part of a whole culture intuiting it near time to grease other gears other than sloughing of individualism to obtain acceptance back home.
- Notes:
- MA graduate paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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