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- Gray, William, et al.
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"This Dream of arctic rest" : Memory, Metaphor and Mental Illnessin Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica
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Ingår i: Cold Matters. - Umeå : Umeå University and Royal Skyttean Society. - 9789188466709 ; , s. 125-140
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica, an autobiographical text published in 1997, engages with Antarctica not only as a literal place, but also as a location of the mind. Her imaginative response to what has traditionally been perceived as an inhuman landscape allows her to view the Polar regions as a mental space, signifying a complex system of images and symbols. Diski's physical voyage functions primarily as a metaphor for her attempt to locate an interior psychological terrain, the discovery of which will dispel her profound sense of self-estrangement.This article contends that Diski's use of the interconnecting metaphors of skating, ice and frozen or numbed emotions provide a rich tapestry of associations which serve to illuminate the process whereby traumatic experiences can subsequently manifest themselves in depression and mental illness. In this respect, the narrative, which explores the author's passion for emotional oblivion and obsession with the colour white, represents a desire to experience her life as an accretion of meaning.
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- Gray, Billy
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"The fragments they shore up against their ruins" : Loyalism, Alienation and Fear of Change in Gary Mitchell's As the Beast Sleeps and the Force of Change
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Ingår i: Études Irlandaises. - : PERSEE Program. - 0183-973X .- 2259-8863. ; 32:1, s. 127-139
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to examine how Gary Mitchell's As the Beast Sleeps and The Force of Change engage with what the Ulster poet Tom Paulin has described as "the unbudging, implacable destructiveness" of the triumphalist Loyalist ethos. In these two plays, Mitchell argues that the notion of cultural and physical resistance, not only against a hostile and encroaching world, but also towards the very concept of change itself, represents the dominant ethos of the contemporary Loyalist vision.
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