루이즈 글릭의 가족 신화에 나타난 욕망 서사: 『목초지』를 중심으로

The Desire Narratives of Louise Glück’s Family Myth Focusing on Meadowlands

This paper analyzes the American female poet Loüise Glück’s strategy to rewrite family myths as desire narratives. Glück’s family myths are reassembled from the perspectives of individual members harboring hidden memories, desire, and anger. They offer vivid self-portraits of contemporary families and function as a way to vindicate the dynamics of desire narratives. Making strategic use of mythic narratives helps Glück more or less mitigate the egocentricity and dissolve the abstractness of her poems. This paper understands this mythic strategy has already begun in her previous poetry and culminated in her 1996 collection of Meadowlands. Therefore, it will analyze the strategy of applying myth, focusing on the narratives of the ‘Odysseus-Penelope-Telemachus’ family in Meadowlands. It is the desire narratives of individuals that give the dynamics to the typical family myth. The narratives show slow progress within the complex network of relationships while demonstrating the process that each individual searches an intact self-narrative. This paper will suggest the modern perspective of family myth through analyzing desire narratives in Meadowlands, referring to Peter Brooks’s Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and other works for effective analysis.