Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) - Hardcover

Wagner-Martin, Linda

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9780312223236: Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

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ISBN 10: 0312223234 ISBN 13: 9780312223236

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

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By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing. In her narrative of the accomplished, yet tentative American girl, Wagner-Martin brings the desire to become a writer to the center of Plath's life. By this, she humanizes Plath and brings her from the status of myth and legend to the normality of a talented woman who guides her life by her continuous attempts to achieve her literary aims.

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."..this study is well judged and well written, offering insights into Plath's work as it speaks of her family relationships..." --"Years Work in English Studies"

About the Author:

Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina.

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