Between the Bittern and the Café du Monde: Paul Muldoon’s The Prince of the Quotidian

Authors

  • Wit Pietrzak Zakład Literatury i Kultury Brytyjskiej, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Łódzki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.06.09

Keywords:

Paul Muldoon, autobiography, contemporary Irish poetry

Abstract

The article focuses on Paul Muldoon’s 1994 collection The Prince of the Quotidian. The pamphlet is regarded as a poetic autobiography that takes its impetus from a dual drive towards particularising of experience on the one hand and iterative multiplication of its textual representation. Taking cue from Derrida’s Shibboleth: For Paul Celan, I argue that Muldoon sets up a network of connection that his speaker functions within, thereby positioning himself on the threshold between centripetal focus on life, however mundane it should be, and centrifugal textuality, motivated by intertextual references.

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Author Biography

Wit Pietrzak, Zakład Literatury i Kultury Brytyjskiej, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Łódzki

Wit Pietrzak – dr hab., adiunkt w Zakładzie Literatury i Kultury Brytyjskiej Instytutu Filologii Angielskiej na Wydziale Filologicznym Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Jego zainteresowania naukowe obejmują brytyjską i amerykańską literaturę okresu modernizmu, teorię literatury i filozofię. Autor m.in. monografii: „Levity of Design”. Man and Modernity in the Poetry of. J.H. Prynne (2012), Życie po życiu (2012), Myth, Language and Tradition. A Study of Yeats, Eliot and Stevens in the Context of Heidegger’s Search for Being (2011).

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Published

2017-12-30

How to Cite

Pietrzak, W. (2017). Between the Bittern and the Café du Monde: Paul Muldoon’s The Prince of the Quotidian. Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze, (6), 183–191. https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.06.09

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No. 6 (2017): Małe formy

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Czytanie z perspektywy

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