Sylvia Plath New Views on the Poetry

Originally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her own intensity—the poet pursuing sensation to the ultimate uncertainty, death. For still others, she i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lane, Gary (auth), Lane, Gary, 1943- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Achievement and value: Sylvia Plath, romantic ... / Calvin Bedient
  • Short circuits and folding mirrors / J.D. McClatchy
  • Sincerity kills / Hugh Kenner
  • Sylvia Plath: drama and melodrama / David Shapiro
  • 2. Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing
  • Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara
  • Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn
  • Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane
  • Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg
  • 3. Personal and public contexts: Sylvia Plath's "sivvy" poems: a portrait of the poet as daughter / Marjorie Perloff
  • The absence at the center: Sylvia Plath and suicide / Murray M. Schwartz and Christopher Bollas
  • The beekeeper's apprentice / Carole Ferrier
  • Sylvia Plath and the cycles of history / Jerome Mazzaro.