Title Sylvia Plath and the theatre of mourning / Christina Britzolakis

Published Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1999

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Description 250 pages ; 22 cm Series Oxford English monographs Oxford English monographs. Contents 1. Distorting Mirrors -- 2. Legacies and Dispossessions -- 3. Tending the Oracle -- 4. Gothic Subjectivity -- 5. The Spectacle of Femininity -- 6. Plath's Negations -- 7. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning Summary "Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning offers a new framework of interpretation for the texts, which attends to their formal complexity without detaching them either from their historical moment or from contemporary debates about language, gender and subjectivity. Interweaving close reading and theoretical reflection, Britzolakis argues that Plath's poetry constitutes a psychic theatre which makes the work of mourning inseparable from its performance in language, and shows how she engaged with the legacy of modernism to arrive at this distinctive mode."--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-243) and index Subject Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation. Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation. Femininity in literature. Modernism (Literature) -- United States. Grief in literature. Subjectivity in literature. Mourning customs in literature. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. LC no. 99045928 ISBN 0198183739 (alk. paper)

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