The unraveling archive : essays on Sylvia Plath / edited by Anita Helle.

Other author Helle, Anita Plath, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxii, 277 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Introduction: archival matters / Anita Helle. Pt. I. The Plath archive. Unstable manuscripts: the indeterminancy of the Plath canon / Tracy Brain -- The political education of Sylvia Plath / Robin Peel -- Visual art in the life of Sylvia Plath: mining riches in the Lilly and Smith Archives / Kathleen Connors -- Sylvia Plath's voice, annotated / kate Moses. Pt. II. Culture and the politics of memory. On the beach with Sylvia Plath / Sandra Gilbert -- The Holocaust again: Sylvia Plath, belatedness, and the limits of lyric figure / Ann Keniston -- The "priestess" and her "cult": Plath's confessional poetics and the mythology of women readers / Janet Badia -- Reading Plath photographs: in and out of the museum / Anita Helle -- Ariel's kitchen: Plath, Ladies' home journal, and the domestic surreal / Marsha Bryant -- Poetic arson and Sylvia Plath's "Burning the letters" / Lynda K. Bundtzen -- Creative partnership: sources for "The rabbit catcher" / Diane Middlebrook -- Appendix: the oral archive / Kate Moses.
General noteA collection of eleven essays on Plath's writing with the archive as its informing matrix.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2006021883
ISBN0472099272 (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780472099276 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0472069276 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780472069279 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3566.L27 Z946 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold