TY - BOOK AU - Linn Bratt. Konrad PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Modern Drama as Crisis T2 - The Case of Maurice Maeterlinck UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078295 N2 - 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. LA - English ER -