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Reclaiming Assia Wevill

Author : Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807172286
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Assia Wevill written by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination reconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927–1969), according her a more significant position than a femme fatale or scapegoat for marital discord and suicide in the lives and works of two major twentieth-century poets. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick’s innovative study combines feminist recovery work with discussions of the power and gendered dynamics that shape literary history. She focuses on how Wevill figures into poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, showing that they often portrayed her in harsh, conflicted, even demeaning terms. Their representations of Wevill established condemnatory narratives that were perpetuated by subsequent critics and biographers and in works of popular culture. In Plath’s literary treatments, Goodspeed-Chadwick locates depictions of both desirable and undesirable femininity, conveyed in images of female bodies as beautiful but barren or as vehicles for dangerous, destructive acts. By contrast, Hughes’s portrayals illustrate the role Wevill occupied in his life as muse and abject object. His late work Capriccio constitutes a sustained meditation on trauma, in which Hughes confronts Wevill’s suicide and her killing of their daughter, Shura. Goodspeed-Chadwick also analyzes Wevill’s self-representations by examining artifacts that she authored or on which she collaborated. Finally, she discusses portrayals of Wevill in recent works of literature, film, and television. In the end, Goodspeed-Chadwick shows that Wevill remains an object of both fascination and anger, as she was for Plath, and a figure of attraction and repulsion, as she was for Hughes. Reclaiming Assia Wevill reconsiders its subject’s tragic life and lasting impact in regard to perceived gender roles and notions of femininity, power dynamics in heterosexual relationships, and the ways in which psychological traumas impact life, art, and literary imagination.

The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill

Author : Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176494
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill written by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (1927–1969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg located over 150 texts authored by Assia Wevill and curated them into a collected scholarly edition of her letters, journals, poems, and other creative writings. These documents chronicle her personal and professional lives, her experiences as a single working mother in 1960s London, her domestic life with Hughes, and her celebrated translations of poetry by Yehuda Amichai. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill offers an invaluable documentary resource for understanding a woman whose life continues to captivate readers and scholars.

A Lover of Unreason

Author : Yehuda Koren
Publisher : Robson
ISBN 13 : 1909396834
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Lover of Unreason written by Yehuda Koren and published by Robson. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life. The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughes's mistress. This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevill's is a complex story, formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces.

The Politics Book

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465441077
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Politics Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Politics in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Politics Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Politics, with: - More than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Politics Book is a captivating introduction to the world's greatest thinkers and their political big ideas that continue to shape our lives today, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Delve into the development of long-running themes, like attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India, all through exciting text and bold graphics. Your Politics Questions, Simply Explained This engaging overview explores the big political ideas such as capitalism, communism, and fascism, exploring their beginnings and social contexts - and the political thinkers who have made significant contributions. If you thought it was difficult to learn about governing bodies and affairs, The Politics Book presents key information in a clear layout. Learn about the ideas of ancient and medieval philosophers and statesmen, as well as the key personalities of the 16th to the 21st centuries that have shaped political thinking, policy, and statecraft. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Politics Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

The Return of Feminist Liberalism

Author : Ruth Abbey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317547950
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Feminist Liberalism written by Ruth Abbey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism's association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism. This book examines why, and in what ways, each of these theorists believes that liberalism offers the normative and political resources for the improvement of women's situations. It also brings out and tries to explain and evaluate the differences among them, notwithstanding their shared allegiance to liberalism. In so doing, the books goes to the heart of recent debates in feminist and political theory.

Modernist Women Writers and War

Author : Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807136816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Modernist Women Writers and War written by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged -- one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men. In the past, Goodspeed-Chadwick explains, scholars have not considered writings by women as part of war literature. They have limited "war writing" to works by men, such as William Butler Yeats's poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (1919), which relies on a male perspective: a pilot contemplates his forthcoming flight, his duty to his country, and his life in combat. But works by Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein set in wartime reveal experiences and views of war markedly different from those of male writers. They write women and their bodies into their texts, thus creating space for female war writing, insisting on female presence in wartime, and, perhaps most significantly, critiquing war and patriarchal politics, often in devastating fashion. Goodspeed-Chadwick begins with Barnes, who in her surrealist novel Nightwood (1936) emphasizes the actual perversity of war by placing it in contrast to the purported perverse and deviant behavior of her main characters. In her epic poem Trilogy (1944--1946), H.D. validates female suffering and projects a feminist, spiritual worldview that fosters healing from the ravages of war. Stein, for her part, in her experimental novel Mrs. Reynolds (1952) and her long love poem Lifting Belly (1953), captures her experience of the everyday reality of war on the home front, within the domestic economy of her household. In these works, the female body stands as the primary textual marker or symbol of female identity -- an insistence on women's presence in both the text and in the world outside the book. The strategies employed by Barnes, H.D., and Stein in these texts serve to produce a new kind of writing, Goodspeed-Chadwick reveals, one that ineluctably constructs a female identity within, and authorship of, the war narrative.

Rough Magic

Author : Paul Alexander
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786730250
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Rough Magic written by Paul Alexander and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry, which excels at describing the most extreme reaches of Plath's consciousness and passions. Her work includes the autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, and such collections as The Collosus, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize -- winning Collected Poems. Based on exclusive interviews and extensive archival research, Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life -- including her turbulent marriage to the English poet Ted Hughes -- in a biography that stands alone in its compassionate view of this fiercely talented, deeply troubled artist.

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496826876
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Sylvia Plath written by Carl Rollyson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written. Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse at Smith College, a key figure in the poet’s final days. Barnhouse was a therapist who may have been the only person to whom Plath believed she could reveal her whole self. Barnhouse went beyond the protocols of her profession, serving more as Plath’s ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Ted Hughes and friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed, in Hughes’s malign view, his wife’s undoing, and how biographers, Hughes, and his cohort parsed the events that led to the poet’s death, form the charged and contentious story this book has to tell.

The Postfeminist Biopic

Author : B. Polaschek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137273488
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Postfeminist Biopic written by B. Polaschek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen.

Sylvia Plath

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135035172
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Sylvia Plath written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982138432
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz written by Gail Crowther and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—became bitter rivals and, eventually, friends. Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect in equal terms. In the years that followed, these two women would not only become iconic figures in literature, but also lead curiously parallel lives haunted by mental illness, suicide attempts, self-doubt, and difficult personal relationships. With weekly martini meetings at the Ritz to discuss everything from sex to suicide, theirs was a relationship as complex and subversive as their poetry. Based on in-depth research and unprecedented archival access, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz is a remarkable and unforgettable look at two legendary poets and how their work has turned them into lasting and beloved cultural figures.

These Ghostly Archives

Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Ghostly Archives written by Gail Crowther and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss Sylvia Plath archival discoveries in unique ways, unearthing previously unknown materials and bringing new context to well-known worksNew essays on the sociological notion of ‘haunting’ in the archiveInnovative approaches to distance/international collaboration in archival scholarshipIntroduces new ways of understanding Sylvia PlathPlath’s The Bell Jar is to be released in 2018 as a major film starring Dakota Fanning and directed by Kirsten Dunst These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath offers a ground-breaking look at Plath studies. Focusing on previously unpublished material found in archives from around the world, These Ghostly Archives aims to reconstruct the ghostly figure of Plath within our culture via unseen letters, manuscripts, photographs, places and poems. This book approaches archival studies exploring both the practical and experiential work carried out in the archive, highlighting the ‘detective’-type work that it involves and the traces left behind from history. However, for the first time, this work also combines the sociological notion of ‘haunting’ - that is, the archive as a location where researchers haunt the research subject and in turn are haunted by the traces left behind. Never is material culture more powerful than when associated with the dead; never is the archive ghostlier when haunted by the absent presence of Plath. This book showcases the necessity to leave no archival box or folder left unopened, and how the researcher and the archive can change even though its documents might stay the same. Illustrations: 32 colour photographs

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006274044X
Total Pages : 1424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 written by Sylvia Plath and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen. One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath’s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs. This remarkable, collected edition of Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

Birthday Letters

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374525811
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Birthday Letters written by Ted Hughes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.

A Dangerous Daughter

Author : Dina Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645175813
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Daughter written by Dina Davis and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia, 1950s. Ivy, a teenager from an immigrant family, is on the cusp of adulthood, struggling to survive undiagnosed anorexia nervosa. She endures primitive electro-convulsive therapy and exile from her family, to no avail. It is only through psycho-analysis that hope is possible. Will Ivy conquer The Voice which tries to kill her? A Dangerous Daughter is a work of literary fiction, which draws on true events from the author's life. It will resonate with people of all ages and cultures who have endured the shame and blame of this misunderstood disorder.

Wintering

Author : Kate Moses
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466869135
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Wintering written by Kate Moses and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story of Sylvia Plath. In this deeply felt novel, Kate Moses recreates Sylvia Plath's last months, weaving in the background of her life before she met Ted Hughes through to the disintegration of their relationship and the burst of creativity this triggered. It is inspired by Plath's original ordering and selection of the poems in Ariel, which begins with the word 'love' and ends with 'spring,' a mythic narrative of defiant survival quite different from the chronological version edited by Hughes. At Wintering's heart, though, lie the two weeks in December when Plath finds herself still alone and grief-stricken, despite all her determined hope. With exceptional empathy and lyrical grace, Moses captures her poignant, untenable and courageous struggle to confront not only her future as a woman, an artist and a mother, but the unbanished demons of her past.

The Grief of Influence

Author : Heather Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199558191
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Grief of Influence written by Heather Clark and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grief of Influence follows Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes through alternating periods of collaboation and competition, showing how each poet forged a voice both through and against the other's, and offering a new assessment of the twentieth century's most important poetic partnership.