Meta-Mythopoeia in Ted Hughes’s Poetry
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https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v1i121.266Keywords:
Ted Hughes; mythopoeia; meta-literature; shamanism.Abstract
This paper aims at resetting, and delving into, the question of mythmaking or mythopoeia with regard to Ted Hughes’s poetry. It investigates the new postmodernist literary parameters that set Hughes’s mythopoeia apart from the Romantics’ and the modernists’ tradition of mythmaking. With Hughes, this tradition comes to be challenged as it is now reintroduced through the poet’s literary animals, and as these are deemed the correlative of the poetic process that is informed by the postmodernist poetics of meta-literature.
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