Intertextualitás és feminista újraírás: frankensteini visszhangok Alasdair Gray Szegény párák című művében
Intertextuality and Feminist Rewriting: Frankensteinian Echoes in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things

Summary/Abstract: The central matter of my study is a complex network of intertextual connections through which Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things enters into dialogue with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to my assumption, Poor Things picks up, in a sense, where Frankenstein left off, and the former is in fact an intertextual response to the latter. In my paper I investigate the Frankensteinian echoes of Gray’s novel through different intertexts drawing on the theory of Renate Lachmann which emphasises the mnemonic aspects of literature. The analysis will focus on the feminist reading which appears in the connection of the two novels. I argue that while seeking answers to the mysteries of feminine monstrosity, Poor Things fills in the feminist void of Mary Shelley’s novel.

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