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Author Holbrook, David.

Title Sylvia Plath : poetry and existence / by David Holbrook
Published London : Athlone Press ; [Atlantic Highlands] N.J. : distributed by Humanities Press, 1976

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Description 9 unnumbered pages,308 pages ; 23cm
Contents Who is Sylvia? -- Poem for a false birth -- Baby in the bell jar: the symbolism of the novel -- Schizoid problem in creative wriitng -- Doing, being and being seen -- Fabrication of false selves and Daddy -- Mother and children -- Be(e)ing -- Psychotic poetry -- Artist, responsibility and freedom
Summary This study of Sylvia Path is primarily a search for the meaning of her work, in which coherent and persuasive readings of a poetry which is frequently hard to follow and at times impenetrable force us to attend to the deeper significance of the poet's existential dilemma--tragic in its personal outcome
Analysis Poetry in English American writers Plath, Sylvia 1932-1963 Images & themes Psychological aspects
Notes "Sylvia Plath": p. [298]-299
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 299-302
Notes Also issued online
Subject Plath, Sylvia -- Biography -- Character
Plath, Sylvia -- Psychology.
Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation.
Plath, Sylvia -- Knowledge -- Psychology
Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963 -- Psychology.
Plath, Sylvia.
Plath, Sylvia -- Knowledge -- Psychology [MESH]
Plath, Sylvia -- Knowledge
Plath, Sylvia -- psychology mesh
Plath Sylvia 1932-1963 Criticism and interpretation
Poetry -- Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
LC no. 77357252
ISBN 0485111438
0485120623 (paperback)