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Representing Sylvia Plath

Sally Bayley,Tracy Brain
Representing Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Sally Bayley,Tracy Brain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497534

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Representing Sylvia Plath by Sally Bayley,Tracy Brain Pdf

Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers.

Representing Sylvia Plath

Sally Bayley,Tracy Brain
Representing Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Sally Bayley,Tracy Brain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139101722

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Representing Sylvia Plath by Sally Bayley,Tracy Brain Pdf

"Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers"--

Sylvia Plath

Edward Butscher
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Edward Butscher
Publisher : IPG
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936182329

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Sylvia Plath by Edward Butscher Pdf

This is the first full-length biography of Sylvia Plath, whose suicide in made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation.

Sylvia Plath in Context

Tracy Brain
Sylvia Plath in Context Book PDF

Author : Tracy Brain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108470130

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Sylvia Plath in Context by Tracy Brain Pdf

Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she encounters, and the wide range of cultural, personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped her work. Many of these essays confront the specific challenges for reading Sylvia Plath today. Others evaluate her legacy to the writers who followed her. Reaching well beyond any simple equation in which biographical cause results in literary effect, all of them argue for a body of work that emerges from Plath's deep involvement in the world she inhabits. Situating Plath's writing within a wide frame of references that reach beyond any single notion of self, this book will be a vital resource for students, scholars, instructors and researchers of Sylvia Plath.

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

Jo Gill
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139474139

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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill Pdf

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath's own writing has been supplemented over the decades by a wealth of critical and biographical material. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the poetry, prose and autobiographical writings of Sylvia Plath. It offers a critical overview of key readings, debates and issues from almost fifty years of Plath scholarship, draws attention to the historical, literary, national and gender contexts which frame her writing and presents informed and attentive readings of her own work. This accessibly written book will be of great use to students beginning their explorations of this important writer.

The Grief of Influence

Heather Clark
The Grief of Influence Book PDF

Author : Heather Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199558193

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The Grief of Influence by Heather Clark Pdf

The Grief of Influence follows Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes through alternating periods of collaboation and competition, showing how each poet forged a voice both through and against the other's, and offering a new assessment of the twentieth century's most important poetic partnership.

Eye Rhymes

Kathleen Connors,Sally Bayley
Eye Rhymes Book PDF

Author : Kathleen Connors,Sally Bayley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199233878

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Eye Rhymes by Kathleen Connors,Sally Bayley Pdf

Here is the first book to bring long-overdue attention to Sylvia Plath's surprisingly accomplished visual art and to place that art in relation to her literary career. Plath trained as a studio artist before her sophomore year at Smith and her work in tempera and watercolor paintings, pastels, ink, crayon and pencil drawings, and other media reveals a talent that both complements and illuminates her genius as a writer. Eye Rhymes brings together essays by six Plath scholars-including renowned authors Diane Middlebrook, Landgon Hammer and Christiana Britzolakis, book editors Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley, and Fan Jinghua-and contextualizes approximately sixty of Plath's visual works within her writing oeuvre, starting with juvenilia that reveal the extensive play between her two disciplines. Special attention is given to Plath's unpublished teen diaries and book reports containing drawings and early textual experiments, created years before her famous "I am I" diary notes of age seventeen, when critical examination of her writing usually begins. The book offers new critical approaches to the artist's multidimensional output, including writing that appropriates sophisticated visual and color effects years after painting and drawing became her hobby and writing her chosen profession. The essays gathered here also relate Plath's visual art interests to her early identity as a writer in Cambridge, her teen artwork and writing on war, mid-career "art poems" on the works of de Chirico, her representations of womanhood within mid-century commercial culture, and her visual aesthetics in poetry. Filled with stunning reproductions of her art and fresh readings of many of her most important poems, Eye Rhymes offers readers a new way of understanding the full range of Plath's creative expression.

The Private Life of the Diary

Sally Bayley
The Private Life of the Diary Book PDF

Author : Sally Bayley
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783522231

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The Private Life of the Diary by Sally Bayley Pdf

Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?

Pain, Parties, Work

Elizabeth Winder
Pain Parties Work Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Winder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 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.

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath
Letters Home Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571266340

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Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The letters are addressed mainly to her mother, with whom she had an extremely close and confiding relationship, but there are also some to her brother Warren and her benefactress Mrs Prouty. Plath's energy, enthusiasm and her passionate tackling of life burst onto these pages, providing us with a vivid and intimate portrait of a woman who has come to be regarded as one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, however, these letters also hint at Plath's potential for deep despair, which reached its crisis when she holed up in a London flat for the terrible winter of 1963.

Claiming Sylvia Plath

Marianne Egeland
Claiming Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Marianne Egeland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.

Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

Ikram Hili
Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Ikram Hili
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683932642

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Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Ikram Hili Pdf

Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath provides close readings of some of Plath’s transitional and late poetry that deals with the domestic and cultural ideologies prevalent in post-war America, which affected women’s lives at the time. By examining some of Plath’s manuscripts, Ikram Hili shows how these ideologies informed her writing process.

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

Sylvia Plath
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062740441

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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 by Sylvia Plath Pdf

A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen. One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath’s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs. This remarkable, collected edition of Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

Jo Gill
The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521844963

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The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill Pdf

The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Sylvia Plath's poetry, prose, letters and journals and of their place in twentieth-century culture. These essays by leading international scholars represent a spectrum of critical perspectives. They pay particular attention to key debates and to well-known texts such as Ariel and the The Bell Jar, while offering thought-provoking readings to new as well as more experienced Plath readers. The Companion also discusses three additions to the field: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, Plath's complete Journals and the 'Restored' edition of Ariel. With its invaluable guide to further reading and chronology of Plath's life and work, this Companion will help students and scholars understand and enjoy Plath's work and its continuing relevance.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath

Anita Helle,Amanda Golden,Maeve O'Brien
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Anita Helle,Amanda Golden,Maeve O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350119239

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath by Anita Helle,Amanda Golden,Maeve O'Brien Pdf

With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work. Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this collection explores: · Plath's literary contexts – from the Classics and the long poem to W.B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Sillitoe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes · New insights from Plath's previously unpublished letters and writings · Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC Providing new approaches to her life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath.