Sylvia Plath in Devon

Sylvia Plath in Devon

Author: Elizabeth Sigmund

Publisher:

Published: 2015-01-19

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9781781554371

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An unique analysis of a crucial period in the life of this iconic writer, who tragically committed suicide just months later.


These Ghostly Archives

These Ghostly Archives

Author: Gail Crowther

Publisher: Fonthill Media

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13:

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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 Focusing on previously unpublished material found in archives from around the world, These Ghostly Archives aims to reconstruct the ghostly figure of Plath within our culture via unseen letters,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


Rage Against the Dying

Rage Against the Dying

Author: Elizabeth Sigmund

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Chemical and biological warfare is public health in reverse. Producing nerve gas, a human insecticide, growing plague bacillus to create epidemics- these are some of the activities of CBW scientists. Riot control substances, such as CS gas and psychochemicals, have become widely accepted although in war they are proscribed by international treaties, to which Britain adheres. Documents released under the American Freedom of Information Act, show how widespread was the use of individuals in Britain as unsuspecting subjects for Chemical and Biological warfare experiments, and how systematic was the use of the Official Secrets Act to prevent knowledge of these experiments from ever getting out. This book reveals as much as is known about CBW in Britain. It follows the stories of some of the victims. It draws out the simple, terrifying facts hidden by the experts' jargon. It shows too, how one person's courage and determination to mount a national campaign against CBW influenced the media, informed the pubic and inhibited the irresponsibility of government. -- Publisher description


Birthday Letters

Birthday Letters

Author: Ted Hughes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0374525811

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The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.


Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II

Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II

Author: Sylvia Plath

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 0571339220

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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she simultaneously offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture. Leading Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; building a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath's voice is completely, uniquely her own.


The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

Author: Gail Crowther

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781781555477

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An innovative and unique study exploring why many readers of Sylvia Plath become so attached to her as a cultural figure. By looking at first encounters with Plath's work through to pilgrimages that they make to places where Plath lived, this study explores why readers become so haunted by Plath.


Red Comet

Red Comet

Author: Heather Clark

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 1185

ISBN-13: 0307961168

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. “One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and much more. Clark’s clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath’s suicide promote a deeper understanding of her final days. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark’s meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.


The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

Author: Sylvia Plath

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 1424

ISBN-13: 006274044X

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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.


My Ariel

My Ariel

Author: Sina Queyras

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2017-09-27

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1770565329

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Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women.