Jelöletlen idézet, allúzió, allegóriaDiszkurzív határátlépések Medbh McGuckian két korai versében

Leila Pintér

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XX. , Issue 2, 2025, page 3-24. , ISSN 1336-7307 DOI: 10.17846/PA.2025.20.2.3-24

Abstract:

In this essay, I endeavour to re-read two of McGuckian’s early poems (The Heiress; The Mast Year), which the reception rarely reads in juxtaposition, despite the fact that the two texts, in addition to being related in terms of their central metaphor, are placed next to each other as closing poems, both in Medbh McGuckian’s first volume entitled The Flower Master (1982) and the revised edition thereof, entitled The Flower Master and Other Poems (1993). Through re-reading the poems an attempt will be made to highlight some linguistic manoeuvres – related, among others, to unmarked quotations from Antonia Fraser, allusions to Edmund Spenser and Ovid paving the way for associations to Shakespeare too, and the destabilisation (or, in a de Manian sense, allegorisation) of metaphoric structures drawing also on symbolic hybridity – which, in the context of certain discursive (colonial and anticolonial discourses) and genre-related (aisling, Jacobite song) conventions, can be construed as strategic elements in a carefully composed system of conceptual hybridity in the Bhabhaian sense. In the course of analysing these manoeuvres my reading will point to alternative interpretational possibilities regarding the concept of woman and nation in these poems, while widening their intertextual horizon through complementing the already identified, unmarked quotations from Fraser with the allusions mentioned above.

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