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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.

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 : 43,7 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.

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 : 55,8 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 Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

Neil Corcoran
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry Book PDF

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828109

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by Neil Corcoran Pdf

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

Claiming Sylvia Plath

Marianne Egeland
Claiming Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Marianne Egeland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes

Terry Gifford
The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes Book PDF

Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493568

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The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes by Terry Gifford Pdf

Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and cultural influence being recognised. As well as his poetry and stories, writing for children, translations and prose essays and reviews, in recent years Hughes's own letters have received great critical attention. This Companion consolidates Hughes's life, writings and reputation. International experts from a variety of literary fields here confront the key questions posed by Hughes's work. New archival evidence is provided for fresh readings of his oeuvre with close attention to language, forms and the function of myth. Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the development of modern poetry.

Mad Girl's Love Song

Andrew Wilson
Mad Girl s Love Song Book PDF

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857205902

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Mad Girl's Love Song by Andrew Wilson Pdf

On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter - now one of the most famous in all literary history - was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a 'big, dark, hunky boy'. Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured Plath's life and work. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has taken on the resonance of a modern myth. After Plath's suicide in February 1963, Hughes became Plath's literary executor, the guardian of her writings, and, in effect responsible for how she was perceived. But Hughes did not think much of Plath's prose writing, viewing it as a 'waste product' of her 'false self', and his determination to market her later poetry - poetry written after she had begun her relationship with him - as the crowning glory of her career, has meant that her other earlier work has been marginalised. Before she met Ted, Plath had lived a complex, creative and disturbing life. Her father had died when she was only eight, she had gone out with literally hundreds of men, had been unofficially engaged, had tried to commit suicide and had written over 200 poems. Mad Girl's Love Songwill trace through these early years the sources of her mental instabilities and will examine how a range of personal, economic and societal factors - the real disquieting muses - conspired against her. Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who have never spoken openly about Plath before and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth century's most popular and enduring female poet. Mad Girl's Love Songreclaims Sylvia Plath from the tangle of emotions associated with her relationship with Ted Hughes and reveals the origins of her unsettled and unsettling voice, a voice that, fifty years after her death, still has the power to haunt and disturb.

Sylvia Plath in Context

Tracy Brain
Sylvia Plath in Context Book PDF

Author : Tracy Brain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry

Jane Dowson
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century British and Irish Women s Poetry Book PDF

Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139824859

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson Pdf

This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets' use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or 'confessional' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jennings to Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland and Jo Shapcott. They also include poets at the forefront of poetry trends, such as Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Medbh McGuckian and Carol Ann Duffy. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Christopher Beach
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth Century American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Christopher Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521891493

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The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Christopher Beach Pdf

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945

Jennifer Ashton
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Ashton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521766951

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The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton Pdf

Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

Eva-Marie Kröller
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Book PDF

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath
Letters Home Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 44,9 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's Fiction

Luke Ferretter
Sylvia Plath s Fiction Book PDF

Author : Luke Ferretter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

Jo Gill
Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:821273544

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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.