Mary Poppins : The Inter-War, Outer-Mind Sojourner
The paper aims to establish a relationship between the character of Mary Poppins, created by Pamela Travers in 1934, and the theory of play elaborated by Johan Huizinga in the same 1930’s time period. Provided with magical powers, Mary Poppins materializes both from the fairies of the old popular tr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Association Française de Recherche sur les Livres et les Objets Culturels de l’Enfance (AFRELOCE)
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Strenae |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/strenae/1099 |
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| Summary: | The paper aims to establish a relationship between the character of Mary Poppins, created by Pamela Travers in 1934, and the theory of play elaborated by Johan Huizinga in the same 1930’s time period. Provided with magical powers, Mary Poppins materializes both from the fairies of the old popular tradition and from the literary character of the governess, and introduces the play into the everyday life, establishing rules in the disorder of a world which has forgotten what play is. Besides, the purpose of the paper is also to define the relationship correlating the character of Mary Poppins with the concepts of « drive of life » and of « reparation » developed by Melanie Klein, whose works began to be known in Great Britain in the interwar period. Between psychology, literature, sciences of play, or even pacifist ideology, lines of demarcation emerge, which pave the way for new ones. |
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| ISSN: | 2109-9081 |