Revising Life

Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems

Susan R. van Dyne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1994 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4487-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life--the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.' Choice '[Examines] Plath's twin goals of becoming a famous poet and a perfect mother. . . . This book's main points are clearly and forcefully argued: that both poems and babies require 'struggle, pain, endless labor, and . . . fears of monstrous offspring' and that, in the end, Plath ran out of the resources necessary to produce both. Often maligned as a self-indulgent confessional poet, Plath is here retrieved as a passionate theorist.'-- Library Journal Susan Van Dyne's reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plath's journal entries from 1957 to 1959 (especially as they reveal her conflicts over what it meant to be a middle-class wife and mother and an aspiring writer in 1950s America); the interpretive strategies of feminist theory; and Plath's multiple revisions of the poems.

Autor

Susan R. Van Dyne, professor of English and women's studies at Smith College, is coeditor of Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 313 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-4487-X / 080784487X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4487-8 / 9780807844878
• Zustand: Neuware