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020			_a9780198841470
082			_a811.54 CLA
100			_aClark, Heather
245			_aSylvia Plath : A Very Short Introduction
260			_bOxford University Press _aOxford _c2024
300			_a121
440			_aVery Short Introductions
520			_aSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed second-wave feminism. Her poetry and fiction have been especially important to generations of women readers who have found a powerful reflection of their own emotions and experiences in Plath's art. In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel, her novel The Bell Jar, and short stories “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams,” “The Wishing Box,” and “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom.” Clark summarizes the ways in which Plath has been pathologized, and reframes her work within the broader context of poetic confessionalism, biography, feminism, politics, and mental illness.
650			_aAmerican Literature (1945-1999)
650			_aAmerican Poetry (1945-1999)
650			_a20th Century
650			_aAmerican literature  (English)
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