An Activist’s Spiritual Experience: Maud Gonne’s “Spirit World” in her Autobiography and Letters to Yeats

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S. Trivellini
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Spirituality and the occult represent important aspects of Maud Gonne’s life and writings, and their investigation offers an unusual perspective on this famous icon of revolutionary Ireland. Her memoir and letters to Yeats testify to a lasting relationship with “the spirit world” in as diverse forms as Celtic mysticism, occult practices, psychic phenomena, and the Catholic faith. By investigating her syncretic spirituality and the role this dimension played in her political activism, this contribution intends to expand our understanding of Gonne as an autobiographer; while the written self could “lose all sense of proportion” (Gonne, Yeats 1993, 238) the writer of the self carefully arranged episodes and memories into a plot, the story of a Bildung and of a life’s mission. 
一个积极分子的精神体验:莫德·冈尼自传和给叶芝的信中的“精神世界”
灵性和神秘学代表了莫德·冈尼生活和作品的重要方面,他们的调查为这位著名的爱尔兰革命偶像提供了一个不同寻常的视角。她的回忆录和给叶芝的信证明了她与“精神世界”的持久关系,包括各种形式的凯尔特神秘主义、神秘主义、精神现象和天主教信仰。通过调查她的融合精神以及这个维度在她的政治活动中所起的作用,这篇文章旨在扩大我们对冈尼作为一位自传作家的理解;虽然书面的自我可能“失去所有的分寸”(Gonne, Yeats 1993,238),但自我的作者却精心地将情节和记忆安排成一个情节,一个关于建设和人生使命的故事。
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