Format:
1 Online-Ressource (432 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350119253
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9781350119239
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9781350119246
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9781350304475
Content:
"Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely recognised and inspiring poets of the 20th century. With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars this is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st century scholarship on her life and work. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers the full range of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work, including such topics as: ̈New insights from the publication of Plath's letters ̈Current scholarly perspectives: feminist and gender studies, race, medical humanities and ecocriticism ̈Plath's poetry, the major novel, The Bell Jar , and Plath's writing for children ̈Plath's literary contexts, from Ovid and Robert Lowell to Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing and Stevie Smith ̈Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC The book also includes a substantial annotated bibliography of key primary and secondary writing by and on the author"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Approaching Sylvia Plath in the Twenty-First Century -- Anita Helle -- I : New Cultural and Historical Contexts -- 1. Plath as Punch Line -- Jonathan Ellis -- 2. "Get bathrobe and slippers and nightgown & work on femininity" Sylvia Plath, Self-Identity, and Sleepwear -- Rebecca C. Tuite -- 3. Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: From The Snake Pit to The Bell Jar -- Elizabeth J. Donaldson -- 4. Sylvia Plath's Cambridge -- Di Beddow -- 5. Plath in Space: Feeling the Chill of the Void -- Tim Hancock -- 6. Spectral Traces, Spaces, and Sylvia Plath -- Gail Crowther -- 7 -- of the Heterotopia: Citizen Critics and Marginalia in Library Copies of Sylvia Plath -- Christine Walde -- 8. "God's Lioness" and God's "Negress" The Feminine and the Figure of the African American in Plath -- Jerome Ellison Murphy -- 9 -- Sylvia Plath's Apprenticeship: Constructing a White Literary Imagination -- Maeve O'Brien 10. The Child Reading: Female Stereotypes and Social Authority in Sylvia Plath's Children's -- Stories -- Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis -- 11. "Lucent Figs and Suave Veal Chops" Plath and Food -- Lynda K. Bundtzen -- II : Affiliations, Influences, and Intertextualities -- 12 -- Sylvia Plath's Greek Tragedy -- Holly Ranger -- 13. "Yeats I like very very much" Sylvia Plath and W. B. Yeats -- Gillian Groszewski -- 14. The Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Sympathetic Magic -- Katherine Robinson -- 15. "I am a miner" Long Poems and Literary Succession in Ariel and Crow -- Jennifer Ryan-Bryant -- 16. "Not Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Sillitoe" Sylvia Plath and Ruth Fainlight in the 1960s Heather Clark -- 17. Beelines: Reading Plath through Edith Sitwell and Carol Ann Duffy -- Marsha Bryant -- 18. Medusa's Metadata: Aurelia Plath's Gregg Shorthand Annotations -- Catherine Rankovic -- 19. "I may hate her, but that's not all" Mother-Daughter Intimacy in the Plath Archive Janet Badia -- III : Media and Pedagogy -- 20. Plath and Media Culture Nicola Presley
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21. "I imagine that a man might not praise it as much" Reception of "Three Women" and Plath's BBC-Recorded Poetry Carrie Smith -- 22. Plath's "Three Women" Producing a Poetics of Listening at the BBC Nerys Williams -- 23. Sylvia Plath's "The Jailor" as Radical Feminist Text -- Bethany Hicok -- 24. Archival Pedagogy: Curating Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Screenplay -- Amanda Golden -- 25. Feminist Recovery, Service Learning, and Community Engagement in a Sylvia Plath Studies Undergraduate Seminar -- Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick -- IV: Editing the Archives -- 26. Sylvia Plath in the Round -- Karen V. Kukil -- 27. "They will come asking for our letters" Editing The Letters of Sylvia Plath -- Peter K. Steinberg -- Bibliography -- Index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350119222
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350119222
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350304475
Language:
English
Keywords:
Plath, Sylvia 1932-1963
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350119253
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