num_pages: 186
description: 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.
language: English
title: Modern Drama as Crisis: The Case of Maurice Maeterlinck
titlecomplete: Modern Drama as Crisis: The Case of Maurice Maeterlinck (American University Studies)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers