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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Sylvia Plath"”.
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The two-world division in the poetry of Sylvia Plath
… to trace the artistic evolution in the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Early in her life she established in her work a philosophical bifurcation which continued through much of her poetry. On the one hand, she was drawn towards a world of stark "reality": bleak, scientific and oppressive; on the other, …
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Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton
… Carroll's Alice books, by Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton. Influenced by the cultural fixation on the child and the increasing popularity of Freudian discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female …
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Itinerários na representação do corpo : um olhar sobre Sylvia Plath e Muriel Rukeyser
… e analisar de que forma Muriel Rukeyser e Sylvia Plath utilizam a imagética corporal nos seus textos, testando paradigmas e os limites da representabilidade, numa sociedade predominantemente visual. Estas imagens são confrontadas com outras fontes contemporâneas (nomeadamente fotográficas …
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Jungiaanse argetipes in die poësie van Ingrid Jonker, Sylvia Plath en Anne Sexton
… understanding of the poetry. Ingrid Jonker, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton's poetry is initially analysed (as well as that of Eugène N. Marais and Sara Teasdale). Later more poets enter the discussion, such as Attila József, Cesare Pavese and Marina Tsvetaeva. The therapeutic value of writing …
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Transforming the Law of One: Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath from a Kristevan perspective
A recent trend in the study of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath often dissociates Confessional poetry from the subject of the writer and her biography, claiming that the artist is in full control of her work and that her art does not have naïve mimetic qualities. However, this study proposes that …
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Museum-Making in Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson Confront the Time of History
… the two most canonical American women poets, Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. In the corpus of each, I find a common mode of operation that attempts to reconcile man's and woman's time, to varying degrees of success. Emily Dickinson uses the language of linear history to stretch its …
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"What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?": Manic-depression and the writings of Sylvia Plath
My thesis theorises that Sylvia Platha??s writing can usefully be considered in relation to the manic-depression from which she probably suffered, particularly since there is biographical and autobiographical evidence for such a condition as it is clinically defined. For Plath, writing was an …
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Discoverers of the Not-Known: Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich
… be discoverers? Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich not only express that wish but break new poetic ground as they turn away from the forms and subject matter of their brother artists and show what it means to be a women as well as an artist. They are, in …
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The Grotesque in Some American Novels of The Nineteen-Sixties: Ken Kesey, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath
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"To liberate ourselves and each other" : reading the female community in the fiction of Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
… the fiction of three American women writers: Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. I am specifically concerned with comparing the depiction of female community within white and Black female writers' works. The introduction to this project establishes a theoretical background for …
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession"
… by American confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath. Chinese critics suggest that Zhai inaugurates the trend of confessional poetry in China. This paper will first contextualize the Chinese translation of American confessional poetry in the Mao and post-Mao age, and then problematize the …
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Desmontando narrativas e corpos : uma reflexão sobre o corpo no gótico feminino na obra poética de Sylvia Plath e Anne Sexton, e na obra fotográfica de Francesca Woodman e Cindy Sherman
… desta investigação é o de examinar o modo como Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Francesca Woodman e Cindy Sherman exploraram a representação do corpo da mulher, à luz do gótico, mais especificamente, dentro do enquadramento do gótico feminino. Consequentemente, a obra poética de Sylvia Plath e de Anne …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. First, I establish the pervasiveness of Nietzsche's influence on American society, explore the reasons for his popularity, and provide a brief review of other studies of Nietzsche reception in American literature and culture. Secondly, …
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Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, the Hive, and Identity in Women's Writing
The works examined are poetry by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorede, novels by Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and a drama by Elizabeth Bussey Fentress, The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee …
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“All This Was My Life”: Constructing Textual Self-Identity in Diaries
… process by which the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Janet Schaw construct multiple textual identities and conceptualize their public and private selves. The projection of these multiple selves in the diary text serve to justify the private individual experience as extraordinary and …
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