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Breaking Down Plath

Patricia Grisafi
Breaking Down Plath Book PDF

Author : Patricia Grisafi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781119782384

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Breaking Down Plath by Patricia Grisafi Pdf

A practical guide to Sylvia Plath’s works for middle and secondary school students One of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century, Sylvia Plath wrote work about war, motherhood, jealousy, rage, grief, death, and mental illness that challenged preconceptions about what poetry should be about. The enduring power of Plath’s poetry and prose continues to attract and fascinate a multitude of readers. Best known for her poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" and the novel The Bell Jar, Plath starkly expressed a sense of alienation closely linked to both her personal experiences and the to the wider situation of women throughout mid-twentieth-century America. With an eye towards demythologizing Plath and focusing on her achievements, Breaking Down Plath aims to contextualize Plath’s work in the larger scheme of Cold War-era gender politics, debates about mental health, and anxiety about global conflict. Breaking Down Plath informs readers of essential facts about Sylvia Plath’s life and explores the works of the influential and controversial American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Author Patricia Grisafi contextualizes and clarifies important underlying themes in Plath’s works while providing insight into how interest in Plath’s work developed, how the story of Plath’s life has been told, what we still need to discover about her, and why her life and art matter. Breaking Down Plath: Presents a critical biography of Plath’s life Offers a thematic tour through Plath's, short fiction, journals, and letters Explores the recurrent themes in Plath’s poetry Features an overview of the reception of Plath’s work Discusses the role of Plath in contemporary popular culture This book is a primer for younger or new Plath readers and a welcome addition to the toolbox used by educators, parents, and anyone interested in or studying Plath’s life and work.

Breaking Down Plath

Patricia Grisafi
Breaking Down Plath Book PDF

Author : Patricia Grisafi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781119782407

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Breaking Down Plath by Patricia Grisafi Pdf

A practical guide to Sylvia Plath’s works for middle and secondary school students One of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century, Sylvia Plath wrote work about war, motherhood, jealousy, rage, grief, death, and mental illness that challenged preconceptions about what poetry should be about. The enduring power of Plath’s poetry and prose continues to attract and fascinate a multitude of readers. Best known for her poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" and the novel The Bell Jar, Plath starkly expressed a sense of alienation closely linked to both her personal experiences and the to the wider situation of women throughout mid-twentieth-century America. With an eye towards demythologizing Plath and focusing on her achievements, Breaking Down Plath aims to contextualize Plath’s work in the larger scheme of Cold War-era gender politics, debates about mental health, and anxiety about global conflict. Breaking Down Plath informs readers of essential facts about Sylvia Plath’s life and explores the works of the influential and controversial American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Author Patricia Grisafi contextualizes and clarifies important underlying themes in Plath’s works while providing insight into how interest in Plath’s work developed, how the story of Plath’s life has been told, what we still need to discover about her, and why her life and art matter. Breaking Down Plath: Presents a critical biography of Plath’s life Offers a thematic tour through Plath's, short fiction, journals, and letters Explores the recurrent themes in Plath’s poetry Features an overview of the reception of Plath’s work Discusses the role of Plath in contemporary popular culture This book is a primer for younger or new Plath readers and a welcome addition to the toolbox used by educators, parents, and anyone interested in or studying Plath’s life and work.

Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

Gail Crowther
Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz Book PDF

Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982138424

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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther Pdf

"A dual biography of poets, friends, and rivals Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton"--

Sylvia Plath

Susan Bassnett
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310186

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Sylvia Plath by Susan Bassnett Pdf

Sylvia Plath is one of the best-known and most widely-studied writers of the twentieth century. Since her death in 1963, critics have presented different images of Plath: the 'suicidal' poet, the frustrated wife and mother, the feminist precursor. In this lively and approachable introduction to the author's poetry, Susan Bassnett offers a balanced view of Plath as one of the finest contemporary poets, and shows the diversity of her work. Bassnett's refreshing perspective on the writer provides a welcome alternative to the many studies which attempt endlessly to psychoanalyse Plath posthumously. Bassnett argues that there can never be any definitive version of the Plath story, but, from close readings of her texts, readers can discover the excitement of her diverse work. Plath is not viewed as an author driven by a death wish, nor does the book focus on her suicide - instead, she is considered in the cultural context in which she wrote, and viewed as a complex writer. Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry. It concludes with an analysis of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters, a collection of poems which he wrote about his wife after her death.

Pain, Parties, Work

Elizabeth Winder
Pain Parties Work Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Winder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062085528

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Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder Pdf

"I dreamed of New York, I am going there." On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from The New Yorker and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations. She took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink (vodka, no ice). Young, beautiful, and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was supposed to be having the time of her life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fellow guest editors whose memories infuse these pages, Elizabeth Winder reveals how these twenty-six days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships, and her romantic relationships, and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Pain, Parties, Work—the three words Plath used to describe that time—shows how Manhattan's alien atmosphere unleashed an anxiety that would stay with her for the rest of her all-too-short life. Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon—a young woman with everything to live for.

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

Carl Rollyson
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496826879

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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson Pdf

In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written. Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse at Smith College, a key figure in the poet’s final days. Barnhouse was a therapist who may have been the only person to whom Plath believed she could reveal her whole self. Barnhouse went beyond the protocols of her profession, serving more as Plath’s ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Ted Hughes and friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed, in Hughes’s malign view, his wife’s undoing, and how biographers, Hughes, and his cohort parsed the events that led to the poet’s death, form the charged and contentious story this book has to tell.

Break, Blow, Burn

Camille Paglia
Break Blow Burn Book PDF

Author : Camille Paglia
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307425096

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Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia Pdf

America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.

Zoo Time

Howard Jacobson
Zoo Time Book PDF

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408837443

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Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson Pdf

The new novel from the author of "The Finkler Question," winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010

The Other Sylvia Plath

Tracy Brain
The Other Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Tracy Brain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317881599

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The Other Sylvia Plath by Tracy Brain Pdf

Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was concerned with a much wider range of important cultural and political topics. Unlike most of the existing literary criticism it shifts the focus away from biographical readings and encompasses the full range of Plath's poetry, prose, journals and letters using a variety of critical methods.

Sylvia Plath

Jon Rosenblatt
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Jon Rosenblatt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469648149

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Sylvia Plath by Jon Rosenblatt Pdf

The author shows how Plath's remarkable lyric dramas define a private ritual process. The book deals with the emotional material from which Plath's poetry arises and the specific ritual transformations she dramatizes. It covers all phases of Plath's poetry, closely following the development of image and idea from the apprentice work through the last lyrics of Ariel. The critical method stays close to the language of the poems and defines Plath's struggle toward maturity. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Sylvia Plath

Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438121710

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Sylvia Plath by Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of essays on poet Sylvia Plath's life and work.

Red Comet

Heather Clark
Red Comet Book PDF

Author : Heather Clark
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307951267

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Red Comet by Heather Clark Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. “One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and much more. Clark’s clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath’s suicide promote a deeper understanding of her final days. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark’s meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

Claiming Sylvia Plath

Marianne Egeland
Claiming Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Marianne Egeland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443846295

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Claiming Sylvia Plath by Marianne Egeland Pdf

Over the years, Sylvia Plath has come to inhabit a contested area of cultural production with other ambiguous authors between the highbrow, the middlebrow, and the popular. Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical and comprehensive reception study of what has been written about Plath from 1960 to 2010. Academic and popular interest in her seems incessant, verging on a public obsession. The story of Sylvia Plath is not only the story of a writer and her texts, but also of the readers who have tried to make sense of her life and work. A religious tone and a rhetoric of accountability dominate among the devoted. Questing for the real or true Sylvia, they share a sense of posessiveness towards outsiders or those who deviate from what they see as a correct approach to the poet. In order to offer a new and more nuanced perspective on Plath’s public image, the reception has been organized into interpretive communities composed of critics, feminists, biographers, psychologists, and friends. Pertinent questions are raised about how the poet functions as an excemplary figure, and how – and by whom – she is used to further theories, politics, careers, and a number of other causes. Ethical issues and rhetorical strategies consequently loom high in Claiming Sylvia Plath. The book may be employed both as a guide to the massive body of Plath literature and as a history of a changing critical doxa. Why Sylvia Plath has been serviceable to so many and open to colonization is another way of asking why she keeps on fascinating all kinds of readers worldwide. Claiming Sylvia Plath suggests a host of possible answers. It includes an extensive Plath bibliography.

Sylvia Plath's Fiction

Luke Ferretter
Sylvia Plath s Fiction Book PDF

Author : Luke Ferretter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748689439

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Sylvia Plath's Fiction by Luke Ferretter Pdf

The first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction covering The Bell Jar and all of her published and unpublished short stories drawing extensively on archival material.

Sylvia Plath

Suman Agarwal
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Suman Agarwal
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Autobiography in literature
ISBN : 8172111495

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Sylvia Plath by Suman Agarwal Pdf

This book celebrates Sylvia Plath's achievements as a highly prolific writer who brought a path breaking revolution in the world of poetry thereby making each woman feel the pulse of life. A confessionalist of both weight and colour, Plath was not scared to openly pen down her feelings what she underwent and in no way was she different or less as compared to her contemporaries and the modernists. This enigmatic personality plunged into depression and resorted to hair raising incident of rendering a note to her life by committing suicide at the age of 32. Disdaining political and social subjects, Plath was a different breed from the beat-nicks of her own time and all this goes to prove that she was stunningly original and a powerful poet. Even 40 years after her death in 1963, her place in English literature, is assured. Twentieth century has been a devastating one especially when one is to peep into writers’ personal life which has been nerve wrecking and this book is an attempt to analyze Plath, her life, writings and also her relation to modern poets.