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To Send a Shiver through Unitel: Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Paul Muldoon's "Madoc--A Mystery"

To Send a Shiver through Unitel: Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Paul... ANDREW J. AUGE To Send a Shiver through Unitel: Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Paul Muldoon’s “Madoc—A Mystery” • • n his Clarendon Lectures at Oxford in 1998, Paul Muldoon postulated that the Irish literary tradition is characterized by its “valorization of obliquity and tangentiality” and its con- comitant “disregard for the line between sense and nonsense” and “linear narrative” (To Ireland 107). Few works in that tradition exemplify these distinguishing characteristics more fully than Muldoon’s own long poem “Madoc—A Mystery.” Muldoon’s bizarre masterpiece interfuses the collagist style of modernist epics such as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with the parodic spirit of anti-epics such as Lord Byron’s Don Juan. It incorporates such disparate materials as snippets from the poetry, journals, and letters of the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, and Byron; extended passages from the journals of the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and shorter ones from the journals of George Catlin, the American painter of western indi- genes; and speeches from Native American chieftains, such as the Seneca leader Red Jacket, a time line of the biography of the 1. “Madoc—A Mystery” is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

To Send a Shiver through Unitel: Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Paul Muldoon's "Madoc--A Mystery"

Auge, Andrew J.
Contemporary Literature , Volume 46 (4) – Mar 22, 2006
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ANDREW J. AUGE To Send a Shiver through Unitel: Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Paul Muldoon’s “Madoc—A Mystery” • • n his Clarendon Lectures at Oxford in 1998, Paul Muldoon postulated that the Irish literary tradition is characterized by its “valorization of obliquity and tangentiality” and its con- comitant “disregard for the line between sense and nonsense” and “linear narrative” (To Ireland 107). Few works in that tradition exemplify these distinguishing characteristics more fully than Muldoon’s own long poem “Madoc—A Mystery.” Muldoon’s bizarre masterpiece interfuses the collagist style of modernist epics such as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with the parodic spirit of anti-epics such as Lord Byron’s Don Juan. It incorporates such disparate materials as snippets from the poetry, journals, and letters of the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, and Byron; extended passages from the journals of the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and shorter ones from the journals of George Catlin, the American painter of western indi- genes; and speeches from Native American chieftains, such as the Seneca leader Red Jacket, a time line of the biography of the 1. “Madoc—A Mystery” is

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