| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 143 pages) : portrait |
| Series |
Writers and their Work |
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Writers and their work.
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| Contents |
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical Outline -- Abbreviations and References -- 1 The Plath Myth -- 2 The Autobiographical Writings -- 3 The Poems -- 4 The Prose Writings -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In this new edition of her engaging and original study Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her suicide in 1963 and to which, after over three decades of silence. Ted Hughes responded with his collection of commemorative poems, Birthday letters. Arguing that although we can not sever our reading of Plath's work from the critical and biographical writings about her, the study nevertheless offers close readings of texts to explore the various self-fashionings in poetry and prose. Which this highly ambivalent poet developed. The central theme to which this study returns is Plath's insistence on a clandestine traumatic knowledge of fallibility and fragility underlying the fiction of success, health and happiness so prevalent in post-World War Two, whether expressed as anger and violence, as the celebration of feminine figures of transcendence, |
| Notes |
Previous edition: Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-141) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Plath, Sylvia fast |
| Subject |
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Poets, American
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781786946379 |
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0746312431 |
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9780746312438 |
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1786946378 |
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