Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War PoliticsFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002 - 289 Seiten Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War Politics explores the relationship between Plath's writing and Cold War discourses and argues that the time (1960-1963), the place (England), and the global politics are important factors for us to consider when we consider the rhetoric of Plath's later poetry and fiction. Based on fresh readings arising from new research, this study argues that Plath should not be depoliticized, and examines her writing alongside the discourses of the period as expressed in newspaper reporting, magazines, and BBC radio. In contrasting her relationship with institutions in America in the 1950s with her responses in England to church, the American arms industry, the National Health Service, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament it becomes clear that the process of cultural defamiliarization causes Plath to question the model of the individual artist divorced from society, a model of the writer that had previously seemed so attractive. |
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... thing as hidden knowledge accessible to only a few . The rich tradition of the occult , taken in its widest sense to include Astrology , Rosicrucianism , Sufiism , the Kabbala , Masonic ritual , the Knights Templar , Neo - platonism ...
... thing as hidden knowledge accessible to only a few . The rich tradition of the occult , taken in its widest sense to include Astrology , Rosicrucianism , Sufiism , the Kabbala , Masonic ritual , the Knights Templar , Neo - platonism ...
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... thing to say , and since the argument is not that Plath's writing was political in its intent , but rather that it is informed by an anxiety about international politics , this may also appear to be giving undue prominence to things ...
... thing to say , and since the argument is not that Plath's writing was political in its intent , but rather that it is informed by an anxiety about international politics , this may also appear to be giving undue prominence to things ...
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... things as well . This density of allusion means that the cross over from film to poetry is implicit in some of Plath's poems , but very near the surface in the arrangement of the verse poem for three voices " Three Women , " sug- gested ...
... things as well . This density of allusion means that the cross over from film to poetry is implicit in some of Plath's poems , but very near the surface in the arrangement of the verse poem for three voices " Three Women , " sug- gested ...
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... thing could come about and be sys- tematized . Plath also read Hannah Arendt , whose studies of state power and the human condition in the contemporary world form the subject of Between Past and Future ( 1954 ) , The Human Condition ...
... thing could come about and be sys- tematized . Plath also read Hannah Arendt , whose studies of state power and the human condition in the contemporary world form the subject of Between Past and Future ( 1954 ) , The Human Condition ...
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... things in 1962 , and the richness of connotation and allusion is one of the delights of language that Plath's poems celebrate . Irony was one means by which the awfulness of the present moment could be endured and it very evident in the ...
... things in 1962 , and the richness of connotation and allusion is one of the delights of language that Plath's poems celebrate . Irony was one means by which the awfulness of the present moment could be endured and it very evident in the ...
Inhalt
| 43 | |
Winthrop to Winkleigh Performance Politics and Place | 87 |
Revising and Revising The Bell Jar Manuscripts Two January 1962 Poems Elm and Ariel | 121 |
Women and Politics on the Wireless Sylvia Plath Laura Riding and the BBC | 133 |
Institutions and the Formation of Political Judgment Arenas Ruins Hospitals and other Troubling Places | 148 |
The issues of our time The Observer Poetry and Thalidomide | 165 |
The Language of Apocalypse The Ariel poems and the Discourse of Warfare | 173 |
The Politics of Religion Father Michael and the Argument with Catholicism | 212 |
Disturbance Panic and the Fear of World Politics | 236 |
The Bell Jar Manuscripts | 239 |
The Drafts of Wuthering Heights | 243 |
The Politics of Abjection and Desire | 245 |
Final Reading | 249 |
Supporting evidence from the Plath MSS in the Lilly Library Manuscript Department University of Indiana at Bloomington From the Ted Hughes Pa... | 253 |
Notes | 256 |
Bibliography | 280 |
The Fusion of discourses | 224 |
Experiments with Masquerade Gender Identity and the Body Politic | 228 |
Becoming a Writer Becoming a Smith Girl | 232 |
Index | 287 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Al Alvarez American Anne Sexton anxieties appears Ariel poems Aurelia Plath baby Bell Jar body bomb broadcast Cambridge child Cold Cold War contemporary copy critics Cuban Missile Crisis cultural Daddy death describes Devon discourse discussion draft dreams earlier early England Esther evidence experience exploration Faber and Faber Falcon Yard father fear feeling Fever gender global politics Hiroshima Hughes's Ibid identity January journal later Laura Riding letter literary Little Fugue London magazine manuscript Mortimer Rare Book mother MRBR myth North Tawton novel nuclear October period Peter Orr Plath read Plath's poetry Plath's writing poet Press prose published radio Rare Book Room relationship rhetoric says seems sense sexual short story Smith College speaker specific Strangeways student suggest Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes Thalidomide things Three Women tion Top Withens voice Waking in Winter Withens woman writing back written wrote Wuthering Heights York
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Seite 43 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 90 - Womanliness . . . could be assumed and worn as a mask, both to hide the possession of masculinity and to avert the reprisals expected if she was found to possess it-much as a thief will turn out his pockets and ask to be searched to prove that he has not the stolen goods. The reader may now ask how I define womanliness or where I draw the line between genuine womanliness and the 'masquerade.
Seite 220 - I think I am going up, I think I may rise — The beads of hot metal fly, and I love, I Am a pure acetylene Virgin Attended by roses, By kisses, by cherubim, By whatever these pink things mean!
Seite 225 - Probably we will never be able to determine the psychic havoc of the concentration camps and the atom bomb upon the unconscious mind of almost everyone alive in these years.
Seite 206 - One Moment in Annihilation's Waste. One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste— The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing— Oh, make haste!
Seite 220 - Is this the one I am to appear for, Is this the elect one, the one with black eye-pits and a scar? Measuring the flour, cutting off the surplus, Adhering to rules, to rules, to rules. Is this the one for the annunciation? My god, what a laugh!
Seite 225 - ... of our ideas, or indeed the absence of ideas and the absence of personality could mean equally well that we might still be doomed to die as a cipher in some vast statistical operation...
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