The unraveling archive
Subtitle: essays on Sylvia Plath
By: edited by Anita Helle
Contributors: Helle, Anita Plath, 1948-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780472099276; 9780472069279
Subjects: Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation; Plath, Sylvia -- Archives; Plath, Sylvia -- Manuscripts
Notes: A collection of eleven essays on Plath's writing with the archive as its informing matrix

Includes bibliographical references

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: archival matters / Anita Helle. Pt. I. The Plath archive. Unstable manuscripts: the indeterminancy of the Plath canon / Tracy Brain; title: The political education of Sylvia Plath / Robin Peel; title: Visual art in the life of Sylvia Plath: mining riches in the Lilly and Smith Archives / Kathleen Connors; title: Sylvia Plath's voice, annotated / kate Moses. Pt. II. Culture and the politics of memory. On the beach with Sylvia Plath / Sandra Gilbert; title: The Holocaust again: Sylvia Plath, belatedness, and the limits of lyric figure / Ann Keniston; title: The "priestess" and her "cult": Plath's confessional poetics and the mythology of women readers / Janet Badia; title: Reading Plath photographs: in and out of the museum / Anita Helle; title: Ariel's kitchen: Plath, Ladies' home journal, and the domestic surreal / Marsha Bryant; title: Poetic arson and Sylvia Plath's "Burning the letters" / Lynda K. Bundtzen; title: Creative partnership: sources for "The rabbit catcher" / Diane Middlebrook; title: Appendix: the oral archive / Kate Moses