{"product_id":"sylvia-plath-9781421435305","title":"Sylvia Plath","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her own intensitythe poet pursuing sensation to the ultimate uncertainty, death. For still others, she is a doomed innocent whose sensibilities were too acute for the coarseness of our world.  The new essays of this edited collection (with a single exception, all were written for this book) broaden the perspective of Plath criticism by going beyond the images of Plath as a cult figure to discuss Plath the poet. The contributorsamong them Calvin Bedient, Hugh Kenner, J. D. O'Hara, and Marjorie Perloffdraw on material that most previous commentators lacked: a substantial body of Plath's poetry and prose, a moderately detailed biographical record, and an important selection of the poet's correspondence. The result is an important and provocative volume, one in which major critics offer an abundanc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Achievement and value\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Process and influence\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Personal and public contexts\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Plath: a selected bibliography of primary and secondary materials \u003cbr\u003eContributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex of Sylvia Plath's works \u003cbr\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408135266647,"sku":"9781421435305","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421435305.jpg?v=1730501713","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sylvia-plath-9781421435305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}