Sylvia Plath in context
by Brain, Tracy
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 …
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- Full title :Sylvia Plath in context / edited by Tracy Brain.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:©2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Aug 2019).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (446 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108556200, 1108556205
- oclc:on1117656641
- LC Classification:PS3566.L27
- Dewey Decimal:811/.54
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of Abbreviations and Textual Note; Key Archives; Introduction; Part I Literary Contexts; 1 Plath and the American Poetry Scene; 2 The Dominant Trends in British Poetry of the 1950s and Early 1960s; 3 Plath and the Classics; 4 Plath and the Radio Drama; 5 'Sincerely Yours': Plath and The New Yorker; Part II Literary Technique and Influence; 6 Plath in the Context of Stevie Smith; 7 Plath's Whimsy; 8 Sylvia Plath and You; 9 Plath and the Lyric; 10 Plath and the Pastoral
Part III Cultural Contexts11 Plath and Food; 12 Plath and Fashion; 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath's Poetry and Auteur Cinema; 14 Plath and Television; 15 Plath and Art; Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts; 16 'Minor Scandal': Lesbian Writing Contexts for The Bell Jar; 17 'Woman-haters Were Like Gods': The Bell Jar and Violence Against Women in 1950s America; 18 Plath and the Culture of Hygiene; Part V Political and Religious Contexts; 19 The Bell Jar, the Rosenbergs and the Problem of the Enemy Within; 20 Religious Contexts for Plath's Work; 21 Plath and Nature; 22 Plath and War
Part VI Biographica…
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