Revising life : Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems / Susan R. Van Dyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyne, Susan R., author.

Series:

Gender & American culture.

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1993]

Summary:

'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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-201) and index.

ISBN:

9798890867346

9780807866061

0807866067