Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A Critical Study

ISBN-13: 9780748625109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Luke Ferretter

Opis

This is the first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Plath wrote fiction throughout her life, in a wide variety of genres, including women's magazine romances, New Yorker stories, comedy, social criticism, autobiography, teenage fiction and science fiction. She wrote novels before and after The Bell Jar. Discussing all these novels and stories, and based on research in the three major archives of her work, this book is the complete study of Plath's fiction. The author analyses her influences as a fiction writer, the relationships between her poetry and fiction, the political views she expresses in her fiction, and devotes two chapters to the central concern of her novels and stories, the roles of women in contemporary society.

Spis treści

1. 'Woolfish, Alas, But Tough': Influences; 2. 'Hellishly Funny Stuff': Plath's Comic Voices; 3. 'Between My Private Crisis and the Huge Crisis': Feminist Politics in the Cold War;; 4. 'How to Be a Woman': Gender and Society in the 1950s; 5. 'An Increasing Market for Mental Hospital Stuff': The Culture of Therapy; 6. Doing It So It Feels Real: Plath's Postmodern Fiction; 7. Plath Myths: The Cultural History of The Bell Jar.