신화 또는 성경 속 여성 인물에 대한 시적 변용: 실비아 플라스와 캐롤 안 더피 시에 대한 비교 (The Transformation of Myth: A Comparative Study on Sylvia Plath and Carol Ann Duffy)

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· 발행기관 : 한국동서비교문학학회
· 수록지 정보 : 동서비교문학저널 / 45호 / 261 ~ 285페이지
· 저자명 : 허현숙

초록

Sylvia Plath wrote several poems based on mythic figures. She moved between real life and myth through the wide-known characters from Bible and mythic story. On attempting to figure out her own voice in male dominating society she focused and transformed the mythic characters, specifically Lazarus and Medusa. With this method she adopted a more specific way to express her emotion and judgment on her situations. She found her own characteristic voice through which she reinterpreted and reinvented the female mythic role accepting the potent and vengeful identity. Plath’s way to express her inner conflicts with the female figures is an example for Duffy to lift the substantial over the male dominant literary world. Duffy took the same way as Plath’s in choosing the mythic characters and transformed them to female figures as in “Lady Lazarus”, or gave them female voice as in “Medusa”. But Duffy, the poet in the late 20th century, rewrites the characters and rejects the male power. The tone of much of her poems speaking through these female characters is potently ironic and gives laughing and scathing mood all over the works. Duffy found the useful world in Plath. Thus Plath gives Duffy helpful way to express her own judgment and to reinvent the way to overcome the male dominant world.

영어초록

Sylvia Plath wrote several poems based on mythic figures. She moved between real life and myth through the wide-known characters from Bible and mythic story. On attempting to figure out her own voice in male dominating society she focused and transformed the mythic characters, specifically Lazarus and Medusa. With this method she adopted a more specific way to express her emotion and judgment on her situations. She found her own characteristic voice through which she reinterpreted and reinvented the female mythic role accepting the potent and vengeful identity. Plath’s way to express her inner conflicts with the female figures is an example for Duffy to lift the substantial over the male dominant literary world. Duffy took the same way as Plath’s in choosing the mythic characters and transformed them to female figures as in “Lady Lazarus”, or gave them female voice as in “Medusa”. But Duffy, the poet in the late 20th century, rewrites the characters and rejects the male power. The tone of much of her poems speaking through these female characters is potently ironic and gives laughing and scathing mood all over the works. Duffy found the useful world in Plath. Thus Plath gives Duffy helpful way to express her own judgment and to reinvent the way to overcome the male dominant world.

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