Representing Sylvia Plath
"Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the r...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: 'Purdah' and the enigma of representation Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain; Part I. Contexts: 1. 'Mailed into space': on Sylvia Plath's letters Jonathan Ellis; 2. 'The photographic chamber of the eye': Plath photography, and the post-confessional muse Anita Helle; 3. 'O the tangles of that old bed': fantasies of incest and the 'Daddy' narrative in Ariel Lynda K. Bundtzen; 4. Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath's imagery of the Holocaust Steven Gould Axelrod; Part II. Poetics and Composition: 5. 'The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue': sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath's tree poems Sally Bayley; 6. Coming to terms with colour: Plath's visual aesthetic Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty; 7. Madonna (of the refrigerator): mapping Sylvia Plath's double in 'The Babysitters' drafts Kathleen Connors; 8. 'Procrustean identity': Sylvia Plath's women's magazine fiction Luke Ferretter; Part III. Representation: 9. Confession, contrition, and concealment: evoking Plath in Ted Hughes's 'Howls and Whispers' Lynda K. Bundtzen; 10. Fictionalising Sylvia Plath Tracy Brain; 11. Primary representations: three artists respond to Sylvia Plath; Adolescent Plath - 'the girl who would be God' Suzie Hanna; Bodily imprints: a choreographic response to Sylvia Plath's Poppy Poems Kate Flatt (with Sally Bayley); Stella Vine's peanut crunching Plath Sally Bayley; Bibliography; Index.