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| Titre : | Teresa Deevy : The Paradigm of Persephone in Temporal Powers (1996) |
| Auteurs : | Cathy LEENEY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 21 n 1 1996) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 81-95 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Teresa Deevy's Abbey plays of the 1930s comprise a forceful and coherent body of work. In Temporal Powers (1931) Deevy creates a matrix of circumstance, freedom, and restraint, which embodies a deep structure of meaning as expressed in the myth of Persephone and Demeter, one of the mysteries of Eleusis. This myth has been cited as a special presentation of feminine psychology in feminist psycho-analytical and developmental theory. To emphasise this structure of meaning extends the value of Deevy's play beyond the currencies of the decade in which it was written, and draws attention to a model of national concern with the clash between the individual and the community, between the eccentric and the consensual |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Cathy Leeney |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
