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Title: To Ireland, I (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature, 1998) by Paul Muldoon ISBN: 0-19-818474-3 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great poets are not always great critics
Comment: I am bemused and rather disappointed with this book. Muldoon uses intertextual associativeness to generate wonderful poems -- touching, comic, and stylistically breath-taking. Here he uses the same method in a critical rhapsody that links together a galaxy of Irish literary texts and legends, arranged (or disarranged) in alphabetical order. He moves freely and funnily between Gaelic and English, ancient and modern, biographical and textual. The performance is carried off with brio, in a manner that recalls certain experiments in randomness of Roland Barthes. Unfortunately, many of the allusions Muldoon finds are so farfetched as to make one wince as at a bad pun. He circles around Joyce's "The Dead," adding one or two valid observations to what allusion-hunters have already noted, but otherwise sending readers off on a wild goose chase. Unlike Seamus Heaney, who is a great, authoritative, and highly trained literary critic, Muldoon does not project from his distinctive poetic sensibility a capacious literary critical vision. He flogs to death the idea of "conglomewriting" as a distinctively Irish practice, culminating in Finnegans Wake, but he offers little serious reflection on what the literary value of this practice might be. For that one must turn to works like Gerard Genette's Palimpsestes, which offers a careful and thorough examination of the ancient art of intertextual composition. Professorial pedants will find consolation in the thought that poets may need their services after all.
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Title: Poems 1968-1998 by Paul Muldoon ISBN: 0374528446 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 03 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Eclipse : A Novel by John Banville ISBN: 0375725296 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty ISBN: 0393318419 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Irish Classics : by Declan Kiberd ISBN: 0674010086 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Marina Carr: Plays 1 : Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats... by Marina Carr ISBN: 0571200117 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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