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Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life

✍ Scribed by Linda Wagner-Martin (auth.)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Leaves
181
Series
Literary Lives
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Writing Life....Pages 3-10
Creating Lives....Pages 11-20
Creating the Persona of the Self....Pages 21-32
Recalling the Bell Jar....Pages 33-41
Lifting the Bell Jar....Pages 42-53
Plath’s Hospital Writing....Pages 54-66
Defining Health....Pages 67-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Journey Toward Ariel....Pages 83-94
Plath’s Poems about Women....Pages 95-105
Plath’s Triumphant Women Poems....Pages 106-118
Getting Rid of Daddy....Pages 119-132
Sylvia Plath, The Poet and her Writing Life....Pages 133-145
Back Matter....Pages 146-172

✦ Subjects


Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature


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