Sylvia Plath
A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN:
9780198841470
Publication date:
15/01/2025
Paperback
144 pages
Price: 350.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198841470
Publication date:
15/01/2025
Paperback
144 pages
Heather Clark
Provides a concise introduction to one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, exploring the major events in Plath's life and themes in her work,Reframes Plath's work within the broader context of poetic confessionalism, biography, feminism, politics, and mental illness,Written by a leading expert on Sylvia Plath,Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Heather Clark
Description
Sylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed second-wave feminism. Her poetry and fiction have been especially important to generations of women readers who have found a powerful reflection of their own emotions and experiences in Plath's art.
In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections
The Colossus and Ariel, her novel The Bell Jar, and short stories “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams,” “The Wishing Box,” and “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom.” Clark summarizes the ways in which Plath has been pathologized, and reframes her work within the broader context of poetic confessionalism, biography, feminism, politics, and mental illness.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
About the author
Prof Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry, University of HuddersfieldHeather Clark is Professor of Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, winner of the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the LA Times Book Prize; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972, which won the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature and the Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Heather Clark
Table of contents
1:Icon and Iconoclast
2:Origins and Ambitions
3:Cold War Maladies
4:Rebirth and Resurrection
5:"The blood jet is poetry"
6:Afterlives
Heather Clark
Description
Sylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed second-wave feminism. Her poetry and fiction have been especially important to generations of women readers who have found a powerful reflection of their own emotions and experiences in Plath's art.
In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections
The Colossus and Ariel, her novel The Bell Jar, and short stories “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams,” “The Wishing Box,” and “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom.” Clark summarizes the ways in which Plath has been pathologized, and reframes her work within the broader context of poetic confessionalism, biography, feminism, politics, and mental illness.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
About the author
Prof Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry, University of HuddersfieldHeather Clark is Professor of Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, winner of the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the LA Times Book Prize; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972, which won the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature and the Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Table of contents
1:Icon and Iconoclast
2:Origins and Ambitions
3:Cold War Maladies
4:Rebirth and Resurrection
5:"The blood jet is poetry"
6:Afterlives
Louis P. Masur
Kenneth Morgan
Robert C. Allen
Hugh Bowden
John Blair
Andrew J. Bayliss
David M. Gwynn
William Doyle
Robert J. McMahon
Frank Ledwidge
