Evidence suggests that Sylvia Plath encountered, paid attention to, and made use of eighteenth-century Augustan literature, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this territory of her ...reading. This article is primarily concerned with the complex (and at times reciprocal) relationship that exists between Plath's personal interest in Augustan literature and that literature's wider post-war critical reception. Looking at her annotated anthology of eighteenth-century verse (among other pieces of evidence), this article considers the ways in which Plath encountered and made sense of eighteenth-century Augustan literature, and then considers the extent to which that literature exerted a creative influence on Plath's own poetry. At the center of this discussion is "Gulliver," a direct response to Swift that, like so many of Plath's mock-heroic poems, is rarely examined either in itself or in relation to the mature poetry of Ariel.
In her poem "Arraignment," Morgan introduces Assia to a world of general readers likely unfamiliar with her place in Ted Hughes's legacy in 1972, just three short years after her death.1 Morgan ...dedicates almost two complete stanzas of the poem (out of eight) to "Assia Guttman Wevill" and, in them, identifies Assia as a translator of poetry, a woman "afraid of losing her beauty," the subject of Plath's poem "Lesbos," and the second of Hughes's "wives" to commit suicide (while also acknowledging that she and Hughes were, in fact, never married). Once again using feminist theories as her principal theoretical lens, Goodspeed-Chadwick makes a compelling case for why Hughes's hyperbolic representation of Assia as a predatory and dangerous seductress matters and deserves to be interrogated by readers of his poetry. Using materials from Assia's unpublished journals and letters, the Ted Hughes archive, Assia's published translations of Yehuda Amichai's poems, and the 2007 biography of Assia by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, among other sources, Goodspeed-Chadwick counters the myopic narrative that has formed around Assia with an analysis of her life and work that lingers with readers long after putting the book down. Not only do we get a vivid sense of the many dimensions of Assia, including her copywriting career in advertising and her accomplishments as translator of Amichai's poetry, but we are able to better imagine and therefore develop empathy for her particular struggles in the years leading up to her suicide—struggles manifest in her tragic internalization of Western ideals of femininity that conflate a woman's worth with youthful beauty and, as Goodspeed-Chadwick poignantly uncovers through the judicious use of historical data, in the challenges she faced in what amounted to her life as a single mother in a culture hostile to unattached women.
Jernigan argues that Plath's focus on the forms of labor available to college-educated women at mid-century not only represents but also intervenes in debates about the gendered division of labor, or ..."occupational segmentation," that arose in the newly-developing world of corporate work.
Resumo Este artigo oferece uma análise do romance A redoma de vidro, de Sylvia Plath, com foco nos processos de subjetivação da protagonista, Esther Greenwood. Entendendo que Esther inicia sua ...jornada identificando-se com o lugar de estrangeira, são elucidados os modos pelos quais sua experiência varia para a de exílio. Explora-se como a economia política do desejo condiciona as mulheres a uma alienação de si mesma e como esta remete ao exílio. As ideias de estrangeiro e exílio são elaboradas em diálogo com o conceito esquizoanalítico de território. Por fim, são expostas as estratégias pelas quais Plath cria um imaginário que funciona por parâmetros diferentes dos impostos pelo desejo masculino.
Abstract This article analyzes Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, focusing on protagonist Esther Greenwood’s subjectivation processes. Understanding that Esther begins her journey identifying herself with the place of a foreigner, it illustrates how her experience shifts to one of exile. It explores how the political economy of desire conditions women to self-alienation and how this leads them to exile. The concepts of foreigner and exile are elaborated in dialogue with a schizoanalytic concept of territory. Finally, the article shows how Plath creates an imaginary that works with different parameters than those imposed by male desire.
Hail and Farewell Leclair, Susan
Clinical laboratory science,
10/2016, Letnik:
29, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Sister Aloysia, my Education Coordinator, brought me to a Massachusetts Senate hearing on a bill to grant licensure to our profession. Did you know that at one time, in addition to the JMT, almost ...every state society had a scientific journal with peer reviewed articles? From ethics and governmental relations to ever expanding influence of molecular diagnosis and evidence-based medicine, the journal has had relied on writers such as James Griffith, Lynn Williams, and Elizabeth Liebach.
Antes del año 2013, fecha en que Raúl Castro implementa una reforma migratoria, salir de Cuba significaba hacer una salida definitiva y perder la ciudadanía cubana. El siguiente artículo narra la ...historia de dos viajes: un viaje de “salida definitiva” de Cuba para los Estados Unidos, y otro de “regreso.” El artículo postula la pregunta de si el segundo viaje podría ser considerado un viaje o un regreso. La forma viaje-regreso que se esculpe a lo largo del texto, permite explorar una serie de problemáticas y vivencias personales relacionadas a los conceptos de salida, emigración, lejanía y pertenencia. El texto también propone un diálogo con dos figuras relevantes que vivieron fuera de Cuba, los escritores Reinaldo Arenas y Severo Sarduy.
Prior to 2013, the year in which Raúl Castro implemented a migratory reform, leaving Cuba meant making a definitive departure and losing Cuba’s citizenship. The following article tells the story of two trips: one, a “definitive departure” from Cuba to the United States and another, a “return” trip to the island. The article poses the question of whether the second trip could be considered a visit or a return. The visit-return form that it is sculpted throughout the text allows the reader to explore a series of problems and personal experiences related to the concepts of departure, emigration, distance, and belonging. The text also proposes a dialogue with two relevant figures who lived outside Cuba, the writers Reinaldo Arenas and Severo Sarduy.
Life branches out before me like a fig tree, I think, remembering Sylvia Plath, right there in front of King's Cross square, wondering where I should go next to reach my friend's house, where he ...lives with other five illegal Romanian immigrants.
Archetype is essential for psychological development. In Jungian psychology, archetypes are highly developed elements of the collective unconscious: a set of shared memories and ideas that all can ...identify with regardless of the culture that one was born into or the period in which one lives. Within the collective unconscious there exist several archetypes among which the father figure is of considerable importance and attention in this study. One way to communicate this particular archetype is through literature. The present article tries to examine and sketch how psychological principles and doctrines and psychic stimulants and tensions influence the creation of literary works particularly poetry through the poems as well as the poet's biography. It attempts to plot connections between the tensions that existed in the poems and their creators. In this paper, Carl Jung's theory of daughter/father archetypal construction in the psyche is applied as a critical tool to analyze the relationship between the father and daughter within the poems of the selected poets. The poems that will be discussed include Sylvia Plath's Full Fathom Five, Anne Sexton's One for my Dame, and Forough Farrokhzad's I Feel Sympathy for the Garden. Moreover, this paper investigates the description of fathers and the poets' ambivalent feelings toward their fathers. It is argued that these poets, through their creations, reconstruct the fact (the memory) of their traumatic past, their fathers' images, and themselves in particular.
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