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Titre : | Heart(h) and Home : Elizabeth Bowen's Irishness (2004) |
Auteurs : | Eluned SUMMERS-BREMMER, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 29 n 2 2004) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 135-150 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | My essay investigates the treatment of houses in Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September and short story "The Working Party" as a figure for both modern subjectivity and the historical dynamics of Anglo-Irishness. Bowen's houses are typically personified, which renders her characters, their inhabitants, either unsettled or in the traditional role of the house itself: unable to change with the times and consequently doomed to irrelevance. Many of these dwellings are also either tombs or are distressingly haunted, and open onto a history that persists in the present as an unassuagable material remainder that may be peculiar to the Anglo-Irish situation. In pursuing this remainder my essay offers insight not only into the imaginative dynamics of Anglo-Irishness but also into the relation between femininity and home that Bowen presents as one of mutual dislocation and undermining |
Pays de publication : | France |
Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
Mention de responsabilité : | Eluned Summers-Bremmer |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |