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Intertextuality and Gender in the Poetry of Louise Glück

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Muhammad Abdul Hassan Muhsin,Muhammad Abdul Hassan Muhsin

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The study uses Kristeva’s famous term “intertextuality” in order to support feminists’ aim of subverting male discourse. Glück’s personas struggle for the sake of having a voice; for example, Glück revives Abishag and Persephone the Wanderer and gives them voice so that they metamorphose into speaking subjects rather than merely silent objects. Glück’s feminine personas survive because they have their own voices instead of being driven by male characters. Glück’s personas strive to avoid the masculine view of the female body as a body rather than a soul. They are challenged by a “meatman” who “whines for fresh woman flesh or blood”. Kristeva’s work in the fields of feminism has done much to examine the gendered nature of the subject, and my application of her theory of the intertextuality demonstrates the sheer range of possibilities for the textual construction of subjectivity. The research utilizes intertextuality as resistance space of feminism.

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