Sylvia Plath
Subtitle: the shaping of shadows
By: Al Strangeways.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Madison; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This is the first critical work to provide a full account of Sylvia Plath's intellectual biography. Using previously unexamined archive material to explore the diversities of influence in Plath's work, Al Strangeways offers a close reworking of Harold Bloom's Oedipal poetics of the literary canon, breaking open the model onto a recognition of the cultural and political forces through which Plath's poetry struggles into expression.

This timely book brings out for the first time the powerful interplay between Plath's poetic development and the writings of Thomas de Quincey, D.H. Lawrence, William Blake, and Emily Bronte, and establishes the crucial context of the often controversial use that she makes of politics, history, and myth in a post-Holocaust world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.