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Oxford English Monographs: Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning by Christina Britzolakis (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100198183739
ISBN-139780198183730
eBay Product ID (ePID)778156
Product Key Features
Number of Pages260 Pages
Publication NameSylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAmerican / General, Poetry
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorChristina Britzolakis
SeriesOxford English Monographs
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN99-045928
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsTaken all in all, this is probably the most penetrating analysis of Plath since Jacqueline Rose's The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991) and Susan Van Dyne's Revising Life (1993). It belongs on the expanding shelf of essential Plath commentary. All Plath scholars will want to know it and to grapple with it's insights and contradictions., Christina Britzolakis, in her well-timed and useful study Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning, draws attention to Plath's frequent criticism of her own poetry throughout the journals
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal811/.54
Table Of ContentAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Distorting Mirrors2. Legacies and Dispossessions3. Tending the Oracle4. Gothic Subjectivity5. The Spectacle of Femininity6. Plath's Negations7. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of MourningBibliographyIndex
SynopsisThe history of Plath's reception as a writer has been one of displacements. Biographical speculation, and the controversy surrounding the posthumous publication of her work, have dominated critical debate at the expense of her poetic and fictional achievement. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning offers a new framework of interpretation for the texts, which attends to their formal complexity without detaching them either from their historical moment or from contemporary debates about language, gender and subjectivity. Interweaving close reading and theoretical reflection, Britzolakis argues that Plath's poetry constitutes a psychic theatre which makes the work of mourning inseparable from its performance in language, and shows how she engaged with the legacy of modernism to arrive at this distinctive mode., The history of Plath's reception as a writer has been beset by the language of scandal. Psychobiographical speculation, combined with the controversy surrounding the posthumous publication of her work, has dominated critical debate at the expense of her poetic achievement. In new contrast, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning offers a theoretically informed yet extremely readable engagement with the texts themselves. The book challenges the critical tendency to see Plath's writing in 'confessional' terms and draws attention to the crucial and hitherto neglected dimension of self-reflexivity. Christina Britzolakis argues that Plath developed a theatrical conception of the speaking subject which made the work of mourning inseparable from its performance in language: she shows how Plath explored the potentialities and limits of figurative language, and also engaged with the legacy of modernism, to arrive at this distinctive mode. Interweaving close reading and theoretical reflection, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning constructs a framework of interpretation which attends to the formal complexity of the texts without detaching them either from their historical moment or from contemporary debates about language, gender, and subjectivity., The history of Plath's reception as a writer has been beset by the language of scandal. Psychobiographical speculation, combined with the controversy surrounding the posthumous publication of her work, has dominated critical debate at the expense of her poetic achievement. In new contrast, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning offers a theoretically informed yet extremely readable engagement with the texts themselves. The bookchallenges the critical tendency to see Plath's writing in 'confessional' terms and draws attention to the crucial and hitherto neglected dimension of self-reflexivity. Christina Britzolakis argues that Plathdeveloped a theatrical conception of the speaking subject which made the work of mourning inseparable from its performance in language: she shows how Plath explored the potentialities and limits of figurative language, and also engaged with the legacy of modernism, to arrive at this distinctive mode. Interweaving close reading and theoretical reflection, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning constructs a framework of interpretation which attends to the formal complexity of the textswithout detaching them either from their historical moment or from contemporary debates about language, gender, and subjectivity., Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning challenges the critical tendency to see Plath's writing in 'confessional' terms, and draws attention to its self-reflexivity. The book argues that Plath developed a theatrical conception of the speaking subject. In her closely sustained study, Britzolakis relates the texts both to their historical moment and to contemporary debates about language, gender, and subjectivity.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.L27Z584 1999
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