The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Convergences) - Hardcover

Jacqueline Rose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674382250 ISBN 13: 9780674382251

Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Since her death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon---an object of intense speculation, fantasy, repulsion, and desire. Jacqueline Rose stands back from the debates and looks instead at the swirl of controversy, recognizing it as a phenomenon in itself--one with much to tell us about how a culture selects and judges writers; how we hear women's voices; and how we receive messages from, to, and about our unconscious selves.

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Review:

"The Haunting of Sylvia Plath" gives us a new Sylvia Plath, even more troubling and contradictory and compelling than the one we thought we knew, and more important for the ways we understand literature and its place in twentieth-century culture. Rose's book--original, deftly-argued, and bold both in its perceptions and in the materials it chooses to include--will render most existing criticism of Plath obsolete.--Stacy Carson Hubbard "American Literature "

Book Description:

Offers an interpretation of Sylvia Plath's writing, claiming that previous interpretations - both feminist and psychoanalytic - have been too polarized.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0674382250
• ISBN 13: 9780674382251
• Binding: Hardcover