The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
by Jacqueline Rose
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Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she has come to represent. She proposes that no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Plath the importance of inner psychic life for the wider sexual and political world. By the author of show more Sexuality in the Field of Vision. show lessTags
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Jacqueline Rose has a Chair in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London.
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- The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
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- Sylvia Plath
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- We have been told that there is a Plath fantasia which deforms the truth of her writing, distorts the facts of her life.
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- English
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