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Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words

Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words

Axelrod, Steven Gould

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Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 080184374X
ISBN13: 9780801843747
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 1992
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

This is a biography of the imagination, an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called the body's journey through language. After an introductory look at the roles played by language and silence in Plath's verbal universe, Axelrod explores the ways in which the poet's father--and father figures, including male literary precursors--interfered with her imagination even as they helped shape it. He describes Plath's ambiguous relations with her mother and with the two literary forebears who took the mother's place--Virginia Woold and Emily Dickinson. And he examines Plath's doubling relationship to her husband, describing how she eventually transferred her doubling impulse to her texts. Axelrod concludes by suggesting a link between Plath's discontinuous narrative of the double and her personal fate.

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