Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052119752X
Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.
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File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2018
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Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the development of modern poetry.
Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139474138
Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath's own writing has been supplemented over the decades by a wealth of critical and biographical material. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the poetry, prose and autobiographical writings of Sylvia Plath. It offers a critical overview of key readings, debates and issues from almost fifty years of Plath scholarship, draws attention to the historical, literary, national and gender contexts which frame her writing and presents informed and attentive readings of her own work. This accessibly written book will be of great use to students beginning their explorations of this important writer.
Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521844967
The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Sylvia Plath's poetry, prose, letters and journals and of their place in twentieth-century culture. These essays by leading international scholars represent a spectrum of critical perspectives. They pay particular attention to key debates and to well-known texts such as Ariel and the The Bell Jar, while offering thought-provoking readings to new as well as more experienced Plath readers. The Companion also discusses three additions to the field: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, Plath's complete Journals and the 'Restored' edition of Ariel. With its invaluable guide to further reading and chronology of Plath's life and work, this Companion will help students and scholars understand and enjoy Plath's work and its continuing relevance.
Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982810X
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110869022X
Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century is complimented by his growing reputation as a writer of letters, plays, literary criticism and translations. In addition, Hughes made important contributions to education, literary history, emergent environmentalism and debates about life writing. Ted Hughes in Context brings together thirty-four contributors who inform new readings of the works, and conceptualize Hughes's work within long-standing critical traditions while acknowledging a new awareness of his future importance. This collection offers consideration not only of the most important aspects of Hughes's work, but also the most neglected.
Author : John Parham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108498531
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521838827
An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.
Author : Sally Bayley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139497537
Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers.
Author : Jo Gill
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2005
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The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Sylvia Plath's poetry, prose, letters and journals and of their place in twentieth-century culture. These essays by leading international scholars represent a spectrum of critical perspectives. They pay particular attention to key debates and to well-known texts such as Ariel and the The Bell Jar, while offering thought-provoking readings to new as well as more experienced Plath readers. The Companion also discusses three additions to the field: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, Plath's complete Journals and the 'Restored' edition of Ariel. With its invaluable guide to further reading and chronology of Plath's life and work, this Companion will help students and scholars understand and enjoy Plath's work and its continuing relevance.
