PAUL MULDOON BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND CELTIC MYTH
PAUL MULDOON BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND CELTIC MYTH

Summary/Abstract: Paul Muldoon is one of the most famous poets of Northern Ireland. The considerable output of his reveals that throughout his career he steadily drew upon both Christian religion and Celtic mythology and folklore. Muldoon’s verses, cryptic and elusive, attain these qualities owing to the author’s postmodern techniques, thus making the task of their decoding a rather challenging one. Our aim is to analyze the way the tenets of Christianity and paradigms of Celtic folklore are re-contextualized and made open to many discursive interventions. Apart from the poems dealing exclusively with either Christian or Celtic myth, we will draw attention to the poems where these mythologies are inseparably intertwined owing to the syncretism of Muldoon’s poetic genius.

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