"I'm a riddle in nine syllables...." "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath
Focuses on the writings of Sylvia Plath to reveal her cultural and
political concerns - a thoroughly new approach away from
biographical readings of her work. Plath's unpublished letters are
examined, as well as hand-written drafts of poems, typescripts of
"The Bell Jar" and annotated copies of the books that most
influenced her. Provides new close readings of stories and poems
that have seldom been talked about, or have been discussed in
mainly biographical terms. Despite being widely read and studied,
the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in
relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to
suicide. This exciting new study, "The Other Sylvia Plath,"
introduces completely new approaches to her writing, taking the
away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a
writer who was concerned with a much wider range of important
cultural and political topics. Tracy Brain provides new close
readings of stories and poems that have seldom been talked about,
or have been discussed in mainly biographical terms. Unlike most of
the existing literary criticism, "The Other Sylvia Plath" shifts
the focus away from biographical readings and encompasses the full
range of Plath's poetry, prose, journals and letters using a
variety of critical methods. It argues that there is another Sylvia
Plath, a writer who was much more interested in a world beyond her
own skin than critics have allowed. Plath's unpublished letters are
examined, as well as hand-written drafts of poems, typescripts of
"The Bell Jar" and annotated copies of the books that most
influenced her. The book also explores theways in which Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath drafted their poems together and wrote poems in
answer to each other. It is also the first volume to look at
Plath's home-made art scrapbooks and to analyse the significance of
the cover designs and marketing of Plath's work.
Tracy Brain is at University of Stirling.
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