Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence

✍ Scribed by David Holbrook

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 323
Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Admirers of the work of Sylvia Plath will welcome this new paperback edition of a study, first published by The Athlone Press in 1976, which provides coherent and persuasive readings of her poetry. Drawing upon the traditional skills of the literary critic, David Holbrook also deploys the illumination of both psychoanalysis and phenomenology in a pioneering work of literary, individual and cultural interpretation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
1 Who is Sylvia?
2 Poem for a False Birth
3 The Baby in the Bell Jar: the Symbolism o f the Novel
4 The Schizoid Problem in Creative Writing
5 Doing, Being and Being Seen
6 The Fabrication of False Selves and Daddy
7 Mother and Children
8 Be(e)ing
9 Psychotic Poetry
10 The Artist, Responsibility and Freedom
Bibliography
Index
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