그레고리부인과 싱의 작품에 나타난 상호텍스트성

Originally introduced and utilized as a post-structural concept for the effective interpretation of literature and philosophy, intertextuality has been positively accepted as a significant literary strategy in postmodern literature. The works of Lady Gregory and Synge show implicit mutual influences from their relationship. These influences lead to intertextual/postmodern features, in that most of their literary works serve as cross references and are closely interrelated. These qualities stem from the writers’ intimate comradeship for the common cause of Irish renaissance, search for each other’s opinions, and Lady Gregory’s involvement in completing Synge’s texts. Specifically, Synge’s Riders to the Sea parodies the impossibility of humanist self-sacrifice imposed on the hero in Lady Gregory’s Cathleen ni Houlihan. Though the hero as a disturber appear in the texts of both the two dramatists, Synge’s characters in The Playboy of the Western World and In the Shadow of the Glen are a far cry from the idolized heroes of Lady Gregory. This intertextual resonance is confirmed in the background of their works as well.