‘Living So Far from Words’: Intertextuality, Trauma and the Post-Shoah World in Medbh McGuckian’s Blaris Moor

Throughout Medbh McGuckian’s latest collection, Blaris Moor, the poet attempts to depict trauma (and its effects) by mimicking the dislocation of the self and the recurrence of the past in the present through quotations, and the sources themselves are about this very process. The collection presents...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2016-07-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
Online Access:http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/1243/997