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Contributions in Women's Studies: Disturbance in Mirrors : The Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Pamela J. Annas (1988, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-100313249970
ISBN-139780313249976
eBay Product ID (ePID)139473
Product Key Features
Number of Pages207 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDisturbance in Mirrors : the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Publication Year1988
SubjectGeneral, Poetry, American / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorPamela J. Annas
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesContributions in Women's Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight13.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN87-023653
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingA
Series Volume NumberNo. 89
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Volume Number89
Dewey Decimal811/.54
Table Of ContentReflections The Colossus: In Search of a Self Speech and Silence: The Transitional Poetry Three Women: "I Shall Be a Heroine of the Peripheral" A Disturbance in Mirrors: The Late Poems Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis new, uncluttered study of Sylvia Plath's poetry offers a calculated balance between feminist theory and the old heritage of the New Criticism. The apparent thematic peg here is Plath's fascination with mirrors in her life and in her work. . . . This is a very solid work; it is the most readable of the recent books on Plath, and, among the recent works this reviewer knows of, none is comparable. Choice Much of Sylvia Plath's poetry springs from her attempts to recognize and reconcile her own paradoxes: the ones she found inside herself and the ones she faced in the world in which she lived. Like the work of a number of twentieth-century women poets, her poetry can be characterized as a search not so much for definition of self as for redefinition of self. This penetrating study traces, through the internal dialectics that structure poems, the evolution of Plath's imagery, and examines the way the poems embody the tension between images of self and images of world. A developmental study of Plath's poetry, A Disturbance in Mirrors considers various aspects of her work: the social implications of mythic imagery in her early poems; the relationship between language, imagery, and sexual/social context in the poems of the middle period; the connections between aesthetic and biological creativity in a bureaucratic, depersonalized world; the internalized conflict of self and society within the poet; and Plath's attempts, metaphorically and within the poems, to narrate the possibilities for a transformed self reborn into a transformed world.
LC Classification NumberPS3566
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