Patrilineage and Transgenerational Trauma in Yeats’s "Purgatory" (1939)
This paper offers a novel dramaturgical reading of Yeats’s 1939 verse play Purgatory to explore the representation of patrilineage from the point of view of transgenerational trauma. In psychological studies, there is a growing body of evidence attesting to the fact that trauma experienced by an ind...
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| description | This paper offers a novel dramaturgical reading of Yeats’s 1939 verse play Purgatory to explore the representation of patrilineage from the point of view of transgenerational trauma. In psychological studies, there is a growing body of evidence attesting to the fact that trauma experienced by an individual can significantly affect their children and even grandchildren, although these generations have not had a first-had experience of the initial trauma. This paper, therefore, not only offers a close dramaturgical reading of Yeats’s Purgatory in light of patrilineage, but it also employs cultural trauma theory and some aspects of clinical trauma studies as a new frame of reference to gain a more thorough and topical understanding of what Yeats’s drama has to offer to contemporary audiences. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-701a5ca99b174efbb90f064690a65d4a2025-08-20T03:05:15ZengFirenze University PressStudi Irlandesi2239-39782024-08-0114799410.36253/SIJIS-2239-3978-1538314220Patrilineage and Transgenerational Trauma in Yeats’s "Purgatory" (1939)Zsuzsanna Balázs0Óbuda UniversityThis paper offers a novel dramaturgical reading of Yeats’s 1939 verse play Purgatory to explore the representation of patrilineage from the point of view of transgenerational trauma. In psychological studies, there is a growing body of evidence attesting to the fact that trauma experienced by an individual can significantly affect their children and even grandchildren, although these generations have not had a first-had experience of the initial trauma. This paper, therefore, not only offers a close dramaturgical reading of Yeats’s Purgatory in light of patrilineage, but it also employs cultural trauma theory and some aspects of clinical trauma studies as a new frame of reference to gain a more thorough and topical understanding of what Yeats’s drama has to offer to contemporary audiences.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/15383filicidepatricidepatrilineagetransgenerational trauma |
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| title | Patrilineage and Transgenerational Trauma in Yeats’s "Purgatory" (1939) |
| title_full | Patrilineage and Transgenerational Trauma in Yeats’s "Purgatory" (1939) |
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| title_short | Patrilineage and Transgenerational Trauma in Yeats’s "Purgatory" (1939) |
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| topic | filicide patricide patrilineage transgenerational trauma |
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