The Resource Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bronfen
Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bronfen
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- Summary
- 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,
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 143 pages)
- Note
- Previous edition: Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998
- Isbn
- 9780746312438
- Label
- Sylvia Plath
- Title
- Sylvia Plath
- Statement of responsibility
- Elisabeth Bronfen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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,
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bronfen, Elisabeth
- Illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Plath, Sylvia
- Plath, Sylvia
- Poets, American
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Poets, American
- Label
- Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bronfen
- Note
- Previous edition: Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-141) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn854569502
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 143 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780746312438
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- portrait
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv5qpd6g
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)854569502
- Label
- Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bronfen
- Note
- Previous edition: Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-141) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn854569502
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 143 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780746312438
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- portrait
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv5qpd6g
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)854569502
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