Representing Sylvia Plath /
Representing Sylvia Plath /
edited by Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
Introduction: 'Purdah' and the enigma of representation / Contexts: 'Mailed into space': on Sylvia Plath's letters / 'The photographic chamber of the eye': Plath photography, and the post-confessional muse / 'O the tangles of that old bed': fantasies of incest and the 'Daddy' narrative in Ariel / Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath's imagery of the Holocaust / Poetics and Composition: 'The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue': sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath's tree poems / Coming to terms with colour: Plath's visual aesthetic / 'Madonna (of the refrigerator)': mapping Sylvia Plath's double in 'The Babysitters' drafts / 'Procrustean identity': Sylvia Plath's women's magazine fiction / Representation: Confession, contrition, and concealment: evoking Plath in Ted Hughes's 'Howls and Whispers' / Fictionalising Sylvia Plath / Primary representations: three artists respond to Sylvia Plath; Bodily imprints: a choreographic response to Sylvia Plath's Poppy Poems / Stella Vine's peanut crunching Plath / Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain -- Jonathan Ellis; Anita Helle; Lynda K. Bundtzen; Steven Gould Axelrod -- Sally Bayley; Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty; Kathleen Connors; Luke Ferretter -- Lynda K. Bundtzen; Tracy Brain; Suzie Hanna; Kate Flatt (with Sally Bayley); Sally Bayley. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. Adolescent Plath -- 'the girl who would be God' /
"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 reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers"--
English.
9781139101721 (electronic bk.) 1139101722 (electronic bk.) 1139099728 (electronic bk.) 9781139099721 (electronic bk.) 9780511902697 (electronic bk.) 0511902697 (electronic bk.) 9781139101066 1139101064 9781107554900 (paperback) 110755490X 1107221595 9781107221598 1139097695 9781139097697 1139103520 9781139103527 9786613341938 6613341932 1139099043 9781139099042
2011013372
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.
Plath, Sylvia.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY--American--General.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS3566.L27 / Z847 2011eb
811/.54
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
Introduction: 'Purdah' and the enigma of representation / Contexts: 'Mailed into space': on Sylvia Plath's letters / 'The photographic chamber of the eye': Plath photography, and the post-confessional muse / 'O the tangles of that old bed': fantasies of incest and the 'Daddy' narrative in Ariel / Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath's imagery of the Holocaust / Poetics and Composition: 'The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue': sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath's tree poems / Coming to terms with colour: Plath's visual aesthetic / 'Madonna (of the refrigerator)': mapping Sylvia Plath's double in 'The Babysitters' drafts / 'Procrustean identity': Sylvia Plath's women's magazine fiction / Representation: Confession, contrition, and concealment: evoking Plath in Ted Hughes's 'Howls and Whispers' / Fictionalising Sylvia Plath / Primary representations: three artists respond to Sylvia Plath; Bodily imprints: a choreographic response to Sylvia Plath's Poppy Poems / Stella Vine's peanut crunching Plath / Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain -- Jonathan Ellis; Anita Helle; Lynda K. Bundtzen; Steven Gould Axelrod -- Sally Bayley; Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty; Kathleen Connors; Luke Ferretter -- Lynda K. Bundtzen; Tracy Brain; Suzie Hanna; Kate Flatt (with Sally Bayley); Sally Bayley. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. Adolescent Plath -- 'the girl who would be God' /
"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 reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers"--
English.
9781139101721 (electronic bk.) 1139101722 (electronic bk.) 1139099728 (electronic bk.) 9781139099721 (electronic bk.) 9780511902697 (electronic bk.) 0511902697 (electronic bk.) 9781139101066 1139101064 9781107554900 (paperback) 110755490X 1107221595 9781107221598 1139097695 9781139097697 1139103520 9781139103527 9786613341938 6613341932 1139099043 9781139099042
2011013372
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.
Plath, Sylvia.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY--American--General.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS3566.L27 / Z847 2011eb
811/.54