The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she has come to represent. She proposes that no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Plath the importance of inner psychic life for the wider sexual and political world. By the author of Sexuality in the Field of Vision.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Rose, Rose Jacqueline
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9780349004358
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00435-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago classic non-fiction; VMC; Virago classic non-fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, English, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets