Reviews". . . readers who are familiar with Plath's writing and want to know more about its personal and professional contexts would do well to begin with this succinct, commonsensical study."--Library Journal, 'Readers who are familiar with Plath's writing and want to know more about its personal and professional contexts would do well to begin with this succinct, commonsensical study.' Library Journal, ". . . readers who are familiar with Plath's writing and want to know more about its personal and professional contexts would do well to begin with this succinct, commonsensical study."-- Library Journal
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal811/.54 B
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
Table Of ContentChronology PART I The Writing Life Creating Lives Creating the Persona of the Self Recalling the Bell Jar Lifting the Bell Jar Plath's Hospital Writing Defining Health PART II The Journey Toward Ariel Plath's Poems about Women Plath's Triumphant Woman Poems Getting Rid of Daddy Sylvia Plath, The Poet and Her Writing Life The Usurpation of Sylvia Plath's Narrative: Hughes's Birthday Letters Notes Bibliography (selected), Primary and Secondary Index
SynopsisSylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death including the publication of her Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of Plath will be examined along with the publication of Hughes's Birthday Letters . A chronology maps out key events and publications both in Plath's lifetime and posthumously.