Elizabeth Bowen

Abstract

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Strange associations: Elizabeth Bowen and the language of exclusion

“…The cause of Marda's wound may be textually elliptical, or intensely metaphoric for Marda's and Lois's awakening into political violence, into Ireland's landscape of 'rage and rebellion', as Phyllis Lassner claims. 100 But the story that Marda chooses to tell about the wound is also an intensely provocative moment, during which each of the three characters debates how figurative language should be managed and how this 'indiscretion' should impact Danielstown. In this extended scene, excerpts from which I quote at length below, Bowen squares off the different narrative probabilities discussed on the mill's threshold, where we encounter a blushing Lois and a wounded Marda:…”