Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems
โ Scribed by Susan R. Van Dyne
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Susan Van Dyne's reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plath's journal entries from 1957 to 1959 (especially as they reveal her conflicts over what it meant to be a middle-class wife and mother and an aspiring writer in 1950s America); the interpretive strategies of feminist theory; and Plath's multiple revisions of the poems.
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