The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath

Download or read book The Haunting of Sylvia Plath written by Jacqueline Rose and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she has come to represent. She proposes that no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Plath the importance of inner psychic life for the wider sexual and political world. By the author of Sexuality in the Field of Vision .

Download or read book The Haunting of Sylvia Plath written by Jacqueline Rose and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon--an object of intense speculation, of fantasy, repulsion, and desire. Few twentieth-century Western writers have inspired such a range of deeply felt responses: not even her tombstone is allowed to rest in peace. Admirers exalt Plath as a priestess of high art in a degenerate culture, or see her work as an indictment of patriarchal society, as she painfully experienced it in her relationships with her family, her analysts, and her husband, poet Ted Hughes. Detractors, however, see Plath as a seductive, destructive death figure whose solipsistic, negative rantings offend conventional mores and values. In both popular and scholarly circles, there seem to be no middle ground. Jacqueline Rose stands back from the debates, and looks instead at the swirl of controversy, recognizing it as a phenomenon in itself--one with much to tell us about how a culture selects and judges writers; how we hear women's voices; and how we receive messages from, to, and about our unconscious selves. Rose frees Plath from the rigid opposition between psychoanalytic and feminist agendas and offers a new way of understanding Plath and ourselves. --jacket.

Download or read book Giving Up written by Jillian Becker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-05-12 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving Up is Jillian Becker's intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life. Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple's two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of Sylvia's final days and suicide: her physical and emotional state, her grief over Hughes's infidelity, her mysterious meeting with an unknown companion the night before her suicide, and the harsh aftermath of her funeral. Alongside this tragic conclusion is a beautifully rendered portrait of a friendship between two very different women.

Download or read book The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath written by Sylvia Plath and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work. "A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

Download or read book Sylvia Plath written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the troubled life of the American poet and uses her unpublished letters and journals to depict the feelings that led her to suicide

Download or read book These Ghostly Archives written by Gail Crowther and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss Sylvia Plath archival discoveries in unique ways, unearthing previously unknown materials and bringing new context to well-known worksNew essays on the sociological notion of ‘haunting’ in the archiveInnovative approaches to distance/international collaboration in archival scholarshipIntroduces new ways of understanding Sylvia PlathPlath’s The Bell Jar is to be released in 2018 as a major film starring Dakota Fanning and directed by Kirsten Dunst These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath offers a ground-breaking look at Plath studies. Focusing on previously unpublished material found in archives from around the world, These Ghostly Archives aims to reconstruct the ghostly figure of Plath within our culture via unseen letters, manuscripts, photographs, places and poems. This book approaches archival studies exploring both the practical and experiential work carried out in the archive, highlighting the ‘detective’-type work that it involves and the traces left behind from history. However, for the first time, this work also combines the sociological notion of ‘haunting’ - that is, the archive as a location where researchers haunt the research subject and in turn are haunted by the traces left behind. Never is material culture more powerful than when associated with the dead; never is the archive ghostlier when haunted by the absent presence of Plath. This book showcases the necessity to leave no archival box or folder left unopened, and how the researcher and the archive can change even though its documents might stay the same. Illustrations: 32 colour photographs

Download or read book The Grief of Influence written by Heather Clark and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grief of Influence follows Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes through alternating periods of collaboation and competition, showing how each poet forged a voice both through and against the other's, and offering a new assessment of the twentieth century's most important poetic partnership.