This article examined Sylvia Plath's hysterical symptoms through the lens of depersonalization and investigated Plath's "Daddy", "Mirror" and some selected letters. The study adopted the American ...Psychiatric Association approach in which depersonalization is classified as a hysteric psychoform of consciousness and awareness.As discovered in the study, a large number of poems and letters of Plath illustrated how she is treated as an object or a commodity under male domination during her time. It was also found that, one of the major disorders of depersonalization is associated with a sense of detachment from one's self which are discovered in the selected literary works of Plath. In sum, Plath represented depersonalisation as a memorable response to suffering situations such as emotional abuse, stress, and imprisonment in her life.By adopting the APA to analyze written literary texts, it will bring new multidisciplinary concepts and behaviours involved in the construction of 'depersonalization' to provide researchers with an essential frame for new study._
This paper examines a transatlantic identity in the poetry and fiction of Sylvia Plath through the lens of her experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in England. Although the influence that her ...transatlantic movements had on her writing has attracted scholarly attention in the past 20 years, the cross-cultural dimensions of her poetic representation of maternity and motherhood have been largely ignored. Through a close reading of ‘You’re’, ‘A Life’, ‘Morning Song’, ‘Candles’, and sections of
The Bell Jar
, I will argue that the depiction of maternal experiences is crucial to understand Plath’s problematisation of the issue of identity, and especially to understand it in terms of post-war nationalist discourse rooted in the fear of the contaminated ‘other’. In those works written during and after her first pregnancy in London, the female and maternal subjects are frequently displaced from their native land and situated on boundaries between two different societies and cultures. Focusing on the dual (or multiple) view of society and culture surrounding maternity that was fostered through her transatlantic movements, this paper will illuminate how Plath redefines motherhood as a ground on which one’s national identity and the matter of belonging are to be radically questioned.
Na obra intitulada Vésperas (2002), a autora Adriana Lunardi traz ao leitor os últimos momentos da vida de grandes escritoras da literatura mundial, como Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Katherine ...Mansfield, Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, dentre outras, entretanto os contos não são uma biografia destas. Os fatos ocorridos na vida das autoras, aliados à realidade, são transpassados por situações, recortes e personagens que existiram nas obras de cada uma delas, o que chamamos de curadoria polifônica (RABELO, 2021). No conto “Dottie”, que retoma a autora americana Dorothy Parker, vemos uma relação entre a vida da autora, tanto em seus roteiros e contos publicados, quanto com particularidades da vida. Assim, em um processo curatorial polifônico, que tem em Lunardi sua autora curadora, este artigo pretende analisar o conto “Dottie”, principalmente seus aspectos relacionados com a solidão e a morte, temas recorrentes também nas obras e na vida da autora americana, e em diálogo com Michel Schneider, no ensaio “Desculpem-me pelo pó”, publicado no livro Mortes Imaginárias (2005). Serão usados como aporte teórico os estudos de Ariés (2003), Bakhtin (2018), Bloom (1991), Minois (2019), Morin (1997), Villa-Forte (2019) e outros que se mostrarem relevantes.
"Should I take a few pictures of the collections I mentioned," he wrote to me, "Barbie, sixties makeup, or whatnot?" My inbox filled up with vintage Barbie outfits in their original packaging, pink- ...and orange-striped Yardley lipstick tubes from the 1960s, a doll-sized satin pink chaise longue with gold trimming to match, and a circular cane and glass-top table that once belonged to Sylvia Plath. Plath's table, which sits in my living room, and which I sit next to each morning, is very special. God, I'd love to write a whole book that way. Reading through hundreds of submissions is not unlike looking through bins of detritus at a flea market, hoping that something is going to catch my eye, some little treasure.
Sylvia Plath taps into nature and uses a hierarchy of rocks and pebbles, biological processes, and puns that are at times both funny and bawdy. A knowledge system emerges from the complex and ...humorous metaphors Plath embeds in The Bell Jar that enables her to move beyond institutions of masculinity and femininity in a way that has largely been attributed to men. An analysis of Plath's humor alongside the visual structures and progression of metaphors in The Bell Jar allows for new interpretations of the text, and possibly the author herself.
Sylvia Plath's unpublished poems and short stories from her high school years (1947-50) have received little sustained scholarly attention. Yet they offer surprising clues of the writer Plath would ...become, and reveal the strong influence that modernist poetry and progressive politics had on her aesthetic development. They also suggest the crucial role Plath's high school English teacher played in guiding her aesthetic and political instincts. The archive shows how Plath's adolescent literary apprenticeship laid the foundation for two of the most important works of the twentieth century, The Bell Jar and Ariel.
Abstract
This essay illuminates the history of what David Foster Wallace dubbed the “conspicuously young” novelist (CYN), drawing on a series of brief case studies (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond ...Radiguet, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, and James Baldwin) that demonstrate how certain CYNs were marketed and represented in advertising and journalistic discourse. In the process, it traces the construction of a number of ostensibly meritocratic—but in practice highly inequitable—institutions that functioned to identify, sponsor, and promote young writers. Finally, this essay examines the pervasive critical rhetoric of “promise,” which offers the key to understanding the dynamic of hype and disappointment immanent to each “younger generation” of CY writers.
Like a novelist, Atlas creates scenes—the first one in Chapter I in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Room of the Beinecke Library at Yale: "On the table are six large cardboard storage boxes. Don't ...overlook the footnotes to this and other chapters, which include all sorts of amusing and valuable asides about biographers' concerns with the weather and what to call their subjects, the quirks of archives, and the inevitable encounter with Ellmann's rival, Leon Edel, who seemed to grow into a resemblance of his subject Henry James. " "Among his post-Cambridge writings," Holroyd dutifully reports, "can be traced the development of more sophisticated sexual deviations, and the suggestion that he could become erotically aroused by other parts of the body, especially the ears" (124).
The Ultimate Alchemy MARSHALL, ALEXANDRA
Ploughshares,
12/2020, Letnik:
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Journal Article, Magazine Article
The acclaimed work by A. Alvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide talks about the famous suicide of his friend, the poet Sylvia Plath, about whom he said in a recent radio interview that he ...rebukes himself to this day for not recognizing that she was ready to kill herself. Here, Marshall examines what pushes--or pulls--a person to suicide and relates how relates the suicide of her husband.
