description: Since her death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon---an object of intense speculation, fantasy, repulsion, and desire. Jacqueline Rose stands back from the debates and looks instead at the swirl of controversy, recognizing it as a phenomenon in itself--one with much to tell us about how a culture selects and judges writers; how we hear women's voices; and how we receive messages from, to, and about our unconscious selves.
language: English
title: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
titlecomplete: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Convergences)
genres: Theory, Biography, Poetry, Philosophy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Criticism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 266
publisher: Harvard University Press