| Description |
xi, 181 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Literary lives |
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Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Chronology of Plath's Literary Life -- 1. The Writing Life -- 2. Creating Lives -- 3. Creating the Persona of the Self -- 4. Recalling the Bell Jar -- 5. Lifting the Bell Jar -- 6. Plath's Hospital Writing -- 7. Defining Health -- 8. The Journey Toward Ariel -- 9. Plath's Poems about Women -- 10. Plath's Triumphant Woman Poems -- 11. Getting Rid of Daddy -- 12. Sylvia Plath, The Poet and her Writing Life -- 13. The Usurpation of Sylvia Plath's Narrative: Hughes's Birthday Letters |
| Summary |
"Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life explores the way Plath made herself into a writer. This close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing, both in fiction and poetry, sheds considerable light on her late work of the 1960s. Updated to further explore Plath's literary life, this study examines the aftermath of Plath's death on her work and her reputation as a writer, including the posthumous publication of her Collected Poems, edited by Ted Hughes, which won the Pulitizer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Plath biographies are also looked at along with Hughes's Birthday Letters together with a discussion and comparison of Hughes's and Plath's poems. A chronology maps out key events and publication both in Plath's lifetime and posthumously."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1999 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-175) and index |
| Subject |
Plath, Sylvia.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biography.
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| LC no. |
2003051159 |
| ISBN |
1403916535 paperback |
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