Representing Sylvia Plath 1st Edition by Sally Bayley, Tracy Brain ISBN 978-1107006751 1107006759

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ISBN 10: 1107006759

ISBN 13: 978-1107006751

Author: Sally Bayley, Tracy Brain

Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath’s creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women’s magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of color. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers.

Table of contents: 

Part I – Contexts

1.‘Mailed into space’ – on Sylvia Plath’s letters — Jonathan Ellis

2.‘The photographic chamber of the eye’ – Plath, photography and the post-confessional muse — Anita Helle

3.‘O the tangles of that old bed’: fantasies of incest and the ‘Daddy’ narrative in Ariel — Lynda K. Bundtzen

4.Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath’s imagery of the Holocaust — Steven Gould Axelrod

Part II – Poetics and Composition
5. ‘The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue’ – sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath’s ‘tree poems’ — Sally Bayley
6. Coming to terms with colour – Plath’s visual aesthetic — Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty
7. ‘Madonna (of the Refrigerator)’ – mapping Sylvia Plath’s double in ‘The Babysitters’ drafts — Kathleen Connors
8. ‘Procrustean identity’ – Sylvia Plath’s women’s magazine fiction — Luke Ferretter

Part III – Representation
9. Confession, contrition and concealment: evoking Plath in Ted Hughes’s Howls & Whispers — Lynda K. Bundtzen
10. Fictionalizing Sylvia Plath — Tracy Brain
11. Primary representations – three artists respond to Sylvia Plath

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