This book characterizes Maurice Maeterlinck as a modern writer by showing that his early rejection of language in favor of symbolic images and gestures to convey significant experience led to a methodological crisis by threatening silence and madness. This recognition caused the writer to turn back to language as a necessary, even if inadequate, means by which to carry out his artistic-philosophical quest.
| ISBN: | 9780820402222 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 1986 |
| Author: | Linn Bratteteig Konrad |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 186 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |