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Susan Van Dynes reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plaths Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plaths journal entries from 1957 to 1959 (especially as they reveal her conflicts over what it meant to be a middle-class wife and mother and an aspiring writer in 1950s America); the interpretive strategies of feminist theory; and Plaths multiple revisions of the poems.
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Revising Life : Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems Gender & American Culture
author
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Van Dyne, Susan R.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
080784487X
print isbn13
:
9780807844878
ebook isbn13
:
9780807866061
language
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English
subject
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
publication date
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1993
lcc
:
PS3566.L27Z947 1993eb
ddc
:
811/.54
subject
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Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Page i
Revising Life
Page ii
Gender and American Culture
Coeditors
Linda K. Kerber Nell Irvin Painter
Editorial Advisory Board
Nancy Cott Cathy N. Davidson Thadious Davis Jane Sherron De Hart Sara Evans Mary Kelly Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Janice Radway Barbara Sicherman
Page iii
Revising Life
Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems
Susan R. Van Dyne
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill & London
Page iv
1993 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
97 96 95 94 5 4 3 2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Van Dyne, Susan R. Revising life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems / by Susan R. Van Dyne. p. cm.(Gender & American culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2102-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8078-4487-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Plath, SylviaCriticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PS3566.L27Z947 1993 92-31233 811.54dc20 CIP
Page v
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction. Revising Woman
1
1. Rage What a trash to annihilate
11
2. The Body O bright beast I
65
3. Motherhood The blood blooms
127
Notes
179
Selected Bibliography
195
Index
203
Permissions
207
Page vii
Illustrations
"Burning the Letters," draft 1, page 2
39
"Daddy," draft 1, page 3
53
"Lady Lazarus," draft 1, page 4
61
"Medusa," draft 1, page 2
99
"Stings," draft 2, page 2
111
"Fever 103." draft 1, page 1
117
"Ariel," draft 3, page 1
124
"Ariel," draft 3, page 2
125
"Thalidomide," draft 1, page 1
155
"Edge," draft 1
173
"Words," draft 1
177
All illustrations courtesy of the Sylvia Plath Collection, Smith College Library Rare Book Room.
Page ix
Acknowledgments
It has often felt like a specially designed punishment to be writing about a poet who complained incessantly about her writing blocks. Yet tempted as I am to attribute the halts and distractions in my own writing process to Plath's influence, I have been more often inspired by her tireless dedication to her craft, the determined business of making and remaking that is visibly evident on every page of her drafts. That this book was partly made and then entirely remade over six years I owe both to Plath's example and to many feminist scholars and friends.
Linda Wagner-Martin has been an important mentor since we met over these manuscripts in the Rare Book Room at Smith; she has unstintingly shared information and sane advice and welcomed my work with characteristic warmth as complementary to her own. She has also kindly offered opportunities for me to share my research with a wider audience in print and in person. Her biography of Plath aided me often, confirming my intuitions through her detailed research and solving several riddles I had puzzled over. Like many feminist critics, I owe much to Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose ways of thinking about gender and creativity first informed and inspired my own. Sandra's excitement about my early discoveries encouraged me that there would be an audience for this book. My debts to other feminist critics will be evident in the book itself.
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