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Article: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry.(Book review)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- March 22, 2009
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Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. 276 pages. GBP 50.00 (hardback).
Shane Alcobia-Murphy's Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry examines the intertextual nature of the poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian as both a postmodernist reworking of literary authority and an oblique strategy for commenting upon the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The book is a synthesis and extension of several earlier articles on the obliquity of the two poets' work. Alcobia-Murphy was the first critic to point out that McGuckian's poems are centos composed ...