What She Loved Best in the World. Desire, Beauty and Nationalist Propaganda in The Mirror of Truth by Constance Markievicz (1909)
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Publication Date:
2023
Short description:
What She Loved Best in the World. Desire, Beauty
and Nationalist Propaganda in The Mirror of Truth
by Constance Markievicz (1909) / Salis, Loredana. - (2023), pp. 87-107.
abstract:
This article reflects on the transgressive, the destructive and the creative
potential of mirrors, their power to reconcile dreams and reality and to pursue
beauty. To this aim it proposes a reading of “The Mirror of Truth” with special
attention to its economies of desire and the nexus between desire and beauty in their
relation to mirrors. Written by Constance Markievicz and published in 1909 in the
Irish nationalist-feminist monthly Bean na hÉireann, “The Mirror of Truth” is a
peculiar piece of nationalist propaganda exemplary of Markievicz’s rebel writings,
Largely unknown even among the Irish scholarly community this is an allegorical
tale well worth re-discovering today.
potential of mirrors, their power to reconcile dreams and reality and to pursue
beauty. To this aim it proposes a reading of “The Mirror of Truth” with special
attention to its economies of desire and the nexus between desire and beauty in their
relation to mirrors. Written by Constance Markievicz and published in 1909 in the
Irish nationalist-feminist monthly Bean na hÉireann, “The Mirror of Truth” is a
peculiar piece of nationalist propaganda exemplary of Markievicz’s rebel writings,
Largely unknown even among the Irish scholarly community this is an allegorical
tale well worth re-discovering today.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
Constance Markievicz, Bean na hÉireann, the Irish Question, nationalist
propaganda, Easter Rising.
List of contributors:
Salis, Loredana
Book title:
MIRARI, MIRABILIA, MIRROR REFLECTIONS OF REALITY IN LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS