The Other Sylvia Plath

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Longman, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 238 pages

Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was concerned with a much wider range of important cultural and political topics. Unlike most of the existing literary criticism it 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.

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Contents

Where is Sylvia Plath?
12
The Plath Archives
22
Dearly Beloved
31
Copyright

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Tracy Brain lectures in English and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College.

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