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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath by Leila Rahimi Bahmany (2015, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
ISBN-109087282249
ISBN-139789087282240
eBay Product ID (ePID)221545005
Product Key Features
Number of Pages386 Pages
Publication NameMirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectMiddle Eastern, Gender Studies, General, Poetry, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorLeila Rahimi Bahmany
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2015-454846
ReviewsBy using diverse literary theories the author is not only able to detect remarkable parallels in the work of the two poets, which would otherwise have largely remained unnoticed, but can show how similarly both women strove to overcome confining patriarchal definitions of womanhood in their creative work and to reconcile their own artistic ambitions with the expectations of their environment, thus revealing universal traits of the feminine struggle for self-expression across cultural borders and language barriers., Rahimi Bahmany's innovative and timely study shows how it is not only possible but also fruitful to discuss modern Iranian writers within a global literary framework. There is much to be learned here for students of both Plath and Farrokhzad., Through a combination of close textual analysis and insightful historical surveys, Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation casts substantial new light on some essential dynamics governing the works of two remarkable woman poets of the mid-twentieth century, one an Iranian, the other an American. The result is a quantum leap in our understanding of the works of Sylvia Plath and Forugh Farrokhzad.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal891/.5533
Table Of ContentContents Preface Note on Transliteration, Dates and Translation of Persian Poetry Introduction: Women and Their Mirrors chapter 1 - Mirroring in Mythology and Psychology "I am That!": Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring Mirroring in Text chapter 2 - Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process Captive to the Male Gaze The Mirror as an Eye The Mirror of the Heart The Otherness of the Self-image The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image The Mirror and the Window Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad chapter 3 - Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale The Childless Woman: A Narcissist The Gigolo: Male Narcissism Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego Mother in the Mirror The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror The Promising Mirror Child as a Mirror The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self Conclusion Appendix: Farrokhzad's Poems Discussed in the Text with Their English Translation Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisImages of mirrors and reflection have long played a substantial role in literature by women, used to convey ineffable psychological states, the countless images that define and complicate women s lives, and much more. In "Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation," Leila Rahimi Bahmany focuses in particular on the work of two major women writers, Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935 67) and the American Sylvia Plath (1932 63), exploring the various ways that these two artists deployed mirrors and reflections as sites of entrapment or emancipation.", Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of twentieth-century womanhood., Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of twentieth-century womanhood. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberPK6561.F264Z785 2015
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