Společnost a osamění v povídkách Mary Lavinové

Trompak, Kateryna

Thesis Abstract It is hard to safely locate Mary Lavin in the critical discourse as for many decades she has been subject to various approaches concerning her categorisation. Even though Mary Lavin lists as an Irish writer, she was considered apolitical in her works which led to her problematic "exclusion" from the Irish literary tradition. Her works were not always considered feminist in a contemporary sense and have only been placed in a feminist framework with mixed success. This thesis deals with the issue of her placement in the Irish canon and feminist critical literature, aiming to prove that Lavin's significance in both discourses is possible due to her realistic portrayal of universal human traits and issues associated with the life of the Irish middle-class, its traditions and conventions, with a particular attention paid to womanhood and its ordeals. This is achieved by focusing on the prominent notion of solitude in the social space primarily exemplified in the female characters of her stories. While social space is incompatible with the typical concept of solitude as the physical absence of other people, what is relevant in terms of Lavin's short stories are the states of social disengagement, such as mental loneliness and alienation used as a way of detachment of oneself from other human...

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