In this new edition of her engaging and original study Elisabeth
Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her
shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the
context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her
suicide in 1963 and to which, after over three decades of silence.
Ted Hughes responded with his collection of commemorative poems,
Birthday letters. Arguing that although we can not sever our
reading of Plath's work from the critical and biographical writings
about her, the study nevertheless offers close readings of texts to
explore the various self-fashionings in poetry and prose. Which
this highly ambivalent poet developed. The central theme to which
this study returns is Plath's insistence on a clandestine traumatic
knowledge of fallibility and fragility underlying the fiction of
success, health and happiness so prevalent in post-World War Two,
whether expressed as anger and violence, as the celebration of
feminine figures of transcendence, or as the quiet dissolution of
the subject and its world represented in her late Ariel poems;
whether giving voice to the relentless self-absorption of her
autobiographical texts or psychic recovery in her autobiographical
novel, Plath's struggle with gender and cultural identity is
astonishingly timely.
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