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Sylvia Plath in Context

Tracy Brain
Sylvia Plath in Context Book PDF

Author : Tracy Brain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

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 : 43,7 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.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307429506

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath Pdf

The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work. "A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus - Cultural and Social Context

Anne Runkel
Sylvia Plath s Lady Lazarus Cultural and Social Context Book PDF

Author : Anne Runkel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640329021

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Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus - Cultural and Social Context by Anne Runkel Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: keine, University of Hamburg, course: American Poetry & Poetics, language: English, abstract: The name of Sylvia Plath is intrinsically tied to the literary movement of Confessional Poetry. Her poem "Lady Lazarus" is often regarded as the prime example of this genre, as it is "an apparent forecast of Plath's suicide" (Middlebrook 644) only one year later. But the idea of a 'confessional' poetry that directly refers to the poet's personal experience has lead Plath-Criticism astray for many years. Critics "have discussed Plath's life and work as if they were exactly the same thing," and have drawn bizarre conclusions by assuming "that Plath's writing can be used as a reliable source for diagnosing her mental condition.". It is obvious that this kind of immediate understanding of Confessional Poetry leads nowhere. As Tracy Brain puts it, in her essay about the dangers of reading Sylvia Plath's work as an unfiltered outpour of personal experience ("Dangerous Concessions: Sylvia Plath"): How can we ever hope to distinguish the extreme diction and address that is prompted by lived events from a vividly imagined drama that is the result of an expertly assumed style? The answer is: We cannot. Still, one should not altogether ignore the context of the Confessional movement when interpreting Sylvia Plath. But how can Confessional Poetry be dealt with, without getting caught in the traps and pitfalls of a biographic reading? This essay will first try to detect the underlying principles of the so-called 'Confessional Poetry' and position it within literary history. By revealing some of the influences and conventions of Confessional Poetry it aims to uncover the deceiving strategies of this type of poetry. The subsequent interpretation of Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" will then try to concentrate on the cultural and social context the poem was produce in and examine in which ways Pla

The Other Sylvia Plath

Tracy Brain
The Other Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Tracy Brain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317881605

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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.

Three Women

Sylvia Plath
Three Women Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781904232490

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Three Women by Sylvia Plath Pdf

A radio play in verse, comprised of three intertwining monologues by women in a maternity ward.

Sylvia Plath

Robyn Marsack
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Robyn Marsack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106016759794

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Sylvia Plath by Robyn Marsack Pdf

A wonderfully even insisting on, the reader's participation in the interpretive enterprise. Keyed to the Collected poems, published by Faber and Faber (London, 1981). Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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 : 52,6 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.

Pain, Parties, Work

Elizabeth Winder
Pain Parties Work Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Winder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 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.

Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems

Sylvia Plath,Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath s Selected Poems Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath,Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber Limited
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0571135862

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Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath,Ted Hughes Pdf

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.

Red Comet

Heather Clark
Red Comet Book PDF

Author : Heather Clark
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307961167

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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.

Ariel

Sylvia Plath
Ariel Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551997643

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Ariel by Sylvia Plath Pdf

A brilliant collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath, one of America’s most famous and significant female authors. It is characterized by deep, psychological introspection paired with ambiguous scenes and narratives. This edition restores Plath’s selection and order of poems, eschewing her husband’s revisions in favour of the author’s pure, unmodified vision. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath
Letters Home Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Sylvia Plath

Elisabeth Bronfen
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746311363

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Sylvia Plath by Elisabeth Bronfen Pdf

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,

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 : 49,5 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.