| Description |
viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on American literature |
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Critical essays on American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Linda W. Wagner -- Part I. Reviews -- Review of The Colossus / A.E. Dyson -- The tranquilized fifties [The Colossus] E. Lucas Myers -- "Metamorphosis of a book [The Colossus]" / M.L. Rosenthal -- The bell jar / Mason Harris -- Inhabited by a cry : the last poetry of Sylvia Plath / Peter Davison -- Perfection is terrible : it cannot have children... / Barbara Drake -- Review of Ariel / Robert L. Stilwell -- Collecting her strength [Crossing the water] / Peter Porter -- Crossing the water / Paul West -- Damaged instruments [Crossing the water] / Douglas Dunn -- Winter trees / Damian Grant -- Awesome fragments [Winter trees] / Alan Brownstone -- The girl who wanted to be God [Letters home] / Jo Brans -- Letters home : correspondence 1950-1963 / Carol Bere -- Living and dying [Johnny Panic] / Douglas Hill -- Sylvia Plath [The collected poems] / Laurence Lerner -- A note of triumph [The collected poems] / Katha Pollitt -- An interesting minor poet? [The collected poems] / William H. Pritchard -- The journals of Sylvia Plath / Nancy Milford -- Part II. Essays -- The transfiguring self : Sylvia Plath, a reconsideration / Leonard Sanazaro -- The Americanization of Sylvia / Alicia Ostriker -- Angst and animism in the poetry of Sylvia Plath / Marjorie Perloff -- Doing away with daddy : exorcism and sympathetic magic in Plath's poetry / Guinevara A. Nance and Judith P. Jones -- The self in the world : the social context of Sylvia Plath's late poems / Pamela J. Annas -- Sylvia Plath's traditionalism / Frederick Buell -- More terrible than she ever was : the manuscripts of Sylvia Plath's Bee poems / Susan R. Van Dyne -- Sylvia Plath's narrative strategies / Margaret Dickie -- Apprenticed in a Bible of dreams : Sylvia Plath's short stories / Melody Zajdel -- Plath in Italy / Roberta Mazzenti -- In Yeats' House : the death and resurrection of Sylvia Plath / Sandra M. Gilbert. |
| Subject |
Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Wagner-Martin, Linda.
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| ISBN |
0816186820 |
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