Louise Glück's «Persephone the Wanderer» read from a psychoanalytic and Classical Receptions perspective
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Kichouh Aiadi, Sanae
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Journal article
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English
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text (article)
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2022
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Fortunatae: Revista canaria de Filología ISSN 1131-6810 Nº 36, 2, 2022, pags. 67-80
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Louise Glück provides a compelling example of Classical Receptions in contemporary poetry. Hence, this paper aims at discussing Glück's psychoanalytic interpretation of the so-called Homeric Hymn to Demeter and «Persephone the Wanderer», a poem pertaining to Glück's Averno (2006), attempting to demonstrate the appropriation of the myth of Demeter and Persephone from a psychoanalytic approach. After an introduction to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Foley, 1994), and Louise Glück and her poem «Persephone the Wanderer», I will compare the myth of Demeter and Persephone in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter with Glück's «Persephone the Wanderer». From a psychoanalytic perspective, Demeter's psychological state will be addressed while pointing out her motherhood and her grief, and then I will associate the concept of narcissism to both Demeter and Hades in Glück's poem and its impact on Persephone