Paul Muldoon: Expatriate Transnationalism

Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer

doi:10.1057/9781137330390_5

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“…(McCarthy 2008, 169) Muldoon's version of «Pangur Bán» adds another mutual point of creativity and critique between two of the most established figures on the contemporary arena of international poetry. Muldoon and Heaney have since 1968 acted like the scholar and the cat and the cat and the mouse in their creative and critical idiom as well as on the public arena, as so many critics (Moi 2020(Moi , 2007Kennedy-Andrews 2006;Brearton 2003;Corcoran 1999) have pointed out. And it's frequently hard to tell who's the scholar and who's the cat and who's the mouse in their many intertextual exchanges.…”

Section: Pangur Poems Points and Purposesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pangur Bán, Translation, Postmodernism, Paul Muldoon

Moi¹

2022

Nordlit

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«Pangur Bán» is probably the best know poem in Celtic studies, and a poem that tends to become increasingly more popular to audiences outside of Ireland. However, the anonymous, medieval poem has been cherished throughout history for a wide range of poetic, philosophical, intellectual and educational reasons. To inquire into the longevity and popularity of a marginal gloss on his cat by an Irish monk in a German monastery in the ninth century seems appropriate at a time when contemporary literature and applied hermeneutics of all kinds tend to dominate the literary discourses. This essay relates the historical poem to its many translations, for example by Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, and current literary discourses. Why has this enigmatic jeu d’esprit been translated so frequently and why are these translations important? This essay argues that «Anonymous: Myself and Pangur», Muldoon’s version of «Pangur Bán», can be read as a prismatic poem for postmodernist concerns, in his own poetry and in recent theories.

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Section: Pangur Poems Points and Purposesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pangur Bán, Translation, Postmodernism, Paul Muldoon

Moi¹

2022

Nordlit

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Paul Muldoon: Expatriate Transnationalism

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Pangur Bán, Translation, Postmodernism, Paul Muldoon

Pangur Bán, Translation, Postmodernism, Paul Muldoon

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