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| Titre : | De-composing the Gothic Body in Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Nancy MARCK CANTWELL, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 42 n 1 Printemps-été 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 31-44 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : |
This article argues that the corpse seizure in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent epitomizes the fragmentation of Irish cultural identity, employing Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to reveal the gothic body as a site of indeterminacy. Narrative inconsistencies, or dislocutions, “de-compose” the text, registering both a distinctively gothic horror of loss and an obsessive need to record the abject state of the colonized. The dislocution of traumatic events signals a dissolving cultural distinctiveness that destabilizes time and meaning itself.
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| Pays de publication : | France |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
