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.
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.
What She Loved Best in the World. Desire, Beauty and Nationalist Propaganda in The Mirror of Truth by Constance Markievicz (1909)
Loredana Salis
2023-01-01
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.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
