LEADER 01960nam 22003733 450 001 9910163309003321 005 20230220084621.0 010 $a9781785436307 010 $a1785436309 035 $a(CKB)3710000001046630 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7197485 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7197485 035 $a(Perlego)1821458 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001046630 100 $a20230220d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSylvia & Michael 210 1$aLondon :$cCopyright Group,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (191 pages) 311 08$a9700000039660 330 8 $aIn this new edition of her engaging and original study Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her suicide in 1963 and to which, after over three decades of silence. Ted Hughes responded with his collection of commemorative poems, Birthday letters. Arguing that although we can not sever our reading of Plath's work from the critical and biographical writings about her, the study nevertheless offers close readings of texts to explore the various self-fashionings in poetry and prose. Which this highly ambivalent poet developed. The central theme to which this study returns is Plath's insistence on a clandestine traumatic knowledge of fallibility and fragility underlying the fiction of success, health and happiness so prevalent in post-World War Two, whether expressed as anger and violence, as the celebration of feminine figures of transcendence, 700 $aMackenzie$b Compton$0534375 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163309003321 996 $aSylvia & Michael$93009259 997 $aUNINA