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The loss of roses: mother-daughter myth and relationships between women in Mrs. Dalloway.(Critical essay)
From:
West Virginia University Philological Papers
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September 22, 2005| Author:
Tyler, Lisa
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"The loss of the daughter to the mother, the mother to the daughter, is the essential female tragedy," writes Adrienne Rich in Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (237) She laments that our society no longer recognizes the "mother-daughter passion and rapture," once celebrated in the now lost rituals of the mystery of Eleusis, a religious cult of ancient Greece whose mysterious rites were known only to initiates. I want to trace in this essay the way in which Vi...
