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Lädt ... The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (2007. Auflage)
Werk-InformationenThe Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath von Anita Helle
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"Up to the minute and also deeply historicized--each reading of Plath's poems is grounded in and examines larger patterns in her work or in the cultural reception of her writing." --Susan Van Dyne, Smith College "Anita Helle's collection of largely new essays on Sylvia Plath updates the continuing process of the important evaluation of her many-faceted works. I especially like the way established critics are juxtaposed with younger/newer scholars: the dialogue Helle creates here is appropriately exciting." --Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Since Sylvia Plath's spectacular poems were announced to the world nearly a half century ago, fascination with the poet has never waned. In the past decade alone, Plath has been the subject of a new cultural explosion of interest--there have been novels, a feature film, and an array of public conferences, performances, and exhibitions, creating new conversations among different generations of scholars and readers. But because the posthumous record was incomplete--and in some cases, altered--the variety of distinctive materials Plath brought to her poetry has only recently been understood. The publication of Plath's Unabridged Journals, a "restored edition" of her Ariel poems, and Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, along with fresh attention to archives of periodical and popular culture, have provoked new readings of Plath and shed new light on her creative life and art. The Unraveling Archive provides a new assessment of Plath's creative life and work in light of an abundance of new material, offering essays that respond to new discoveries about familiar and neglected works. The book includes reproductions of two of Plath's original paintings from the 1950s and photographs rarely seen before, along with essays by Janet Badia, Tracy Brain, Marsha Bryant, Lynda K. Bundtzen, Kathleen Connors, Sandra Gilbert, Anita Helle, Ann Keniston, Diane Middlebrook, Kate Moses, and Robin Peel. Anita Helle is Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The essays in the second part, Culture and the Politics of Memory, "reflects the opening up of critical approaches to Plath and also the explosion of the canon." These essays explore "works that have received less critical attention" but also drawn on the "heightened awareness of the contexts and settings that have mediated our understanding of Plath's multiple identities." (8) Essays by Sandra Gilbert, Ann Keniston, Janet Badia, Anita Helle, Marsha Bryant, Lynda K. Bundtzen, and Diane Middlebrook each present valuable insight and opinion on Plath's work and help to continue a re-evaluation of critical reception.
The publication of this book, on the radar for about a year, it is well-received like a delayed plane finally reaching its destination. Two enthusiastic thumbs up; my only regret is that I don't have more thumbs... (