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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151786803321

Titolo

This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton / / edited by Amanda Golden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8130-5189-4

0-8130-5257-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Poets, American - 20th century - Criticism and interpretation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Reassessing Anne Sexton / Amanda Golden -- "The house of herself": reading place and space in the poetry of Anne Sexton / Jo Gill -- Anne Sexton's photographic self-fashioning / Anita Helle -- Anne Sexton's institutional voice / Kamran Javadizadeh -- Reading, voice, and performance: "The Freak Show" revisited / Victoria Van Hyning -- From the podium to the second row: the vanishing feel of an Anne Sexton reading / Christopher Grobe -- "Two Sweet Ladies": Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's friendship and mutual influence / David Trinidad -- Are we fake?: images of Anne Sexton, twentieth-century woman/poet / Kathleen Ossip -- The poet has collapsed: coming to terms with Anne Sexton's late poetics and public persona / Jeffery Conway -- "The speaker in this case": Anne Sexton as tale-teller in transformations / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Anne Sexton and the wild animal: an exploration of the bestiary poems / Dorothea Lasky.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.