Sylvia Plath - Confessing the Fictive Self

This book offers new material for the reader who has followed the emerging and ever more complex portrait of Sylvia Plath as a woman and as an artist in the major biographies and in critical studies. It includes some primary sources not previously published, and fresh insights which keep Plath firmly in an American tradition. For the reader who wants an introduction to the life and art of Plath, this book offers a brief analytical biography and a discussion of Plath's poetry, both of which illuminate the shifting balance between Plath's two modes of the imagination.

About the author

The Author: Toni Saldívar is an assistant professor of English at Mount Saint Mary College. She received the doctorate of philosophy degree in English from New York University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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"This study amplifies our understanding of Plath's development by providing a context (via Bloom's 'gnostic' notion) that forces a closer focus on the conscious technique of her art, its continuing, self-referencing struggle to articulate the nature of its own processes... lucid... a fine and significant book." (Edward Butscher)

Product details

• Authors: Toni Saldivar, Toni Saldívar
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780820416656
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-1665-6
• No. of pages: 213
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Writing About Women; Writing About Women; Writing About Women Feminist Literary Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies