1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464151603321

Autore

Badia Janet

Titolo

Sylvia Plath and the mythology of women readers / / Janet Badia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61376-005-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 202 p. )

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Women - Books and reading

Feminism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. "There Is No Such Thing as a Death Girl" : Literary Bullying and the Plath Reader -- "Dissatisfied, Family-Hating Shrews" : Women Readers and the Politics of Plath's Literary Reception -- "Oh, You Are Dark" : The Plath Reader in Popular Culture -- "We Did Not Wish to Give the Impression" : Plath Fandom and the Question of Representation -- "A Fiercely Fought Defense" : Ted Hughes and the Plath Reader -- Conclusion. "I Don't Mean Any Harm" : Frieda Hughes, Plath Readers, and the Question of Resistance.

Sommario/riassunto

Depicted in popular films, television series, novels, poems, and countless media reports, Sylvia Plath's women readers have become nearly as legendary as Plath herself, in large part because the depictions are seldom kind. If one is to believe the narrative told by literary and popular culture, Plath's primary audience is a body of young, misguided women who uncritically even pathologically consume Plath's writing with no awareness of how they harm the author's reputation in the process. Janet Badia investigates the evolution of this narrative, tracing its origins, exposing the gaps and elisions that have defined it, and identifying it as a bullying mythology whose roots lie in a long history of ungenerous, if not outright misogynistic, rhetoric about women readers that has gathered new energy from the backlash



against contemporary feminism. More than just an exposé of our cultural biases against women readers, Badia's research also reveals how this mythology has shaped the production, reception, and evaluation of Plath's body of writing, affecting everything from the Hughes family's management of Plath's writings to the direction of Plath scholarship today. Badia discusses a wide range of texts and issues whose significance has gone largely unnoticed, including the many book reviews that have been written about Plath's publications; films and television shows that depict young Plath readers; editorials and fan tributes written about Plath; and Ted and (daughter) Frieda Hughes's writings about Plath's estate and audience. -- Book Description.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557963903321

Titolo

Book review: Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Tausend Tassen Tee : Journal for Religion, Film and Media

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Schüren Verlag

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386130903316

Autore

Holme Randle <1627-1699.>

Titolo

The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon [[electronic resource] ] : containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick : with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their their terms of art : also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language : very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences / / by Randle Holme .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chester, : Printed for the author, 1688

Descrizione fisica

3 pts. ([14], 107, [9]; [2], 488; [2], 502 p.) : ill., coats of arms

Soggetti

Heraldry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Added t.p. engraved by P. Edwards.

Extends only through liber III, ch. 13. The contents includes liber III, ch. 14-21, and liber IV, ch. 1-15, as "ready for the press" ... "if encouraged by liberal and free contributors." A unique copy in the Royal Library at Windsor contains 191 printed pages of this portion. In 1905 all that could be found of it, liber III, ch. 14-22, and liber IV, ch. 4-13, was printed for the Roxburghe Club from the ms. in the BM (Harleian ms. 2033-35).

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113