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Sylvia Plath in ContextAbstract
Following Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s lead, Gareth Farmer repositions Plath’s work in experimental British, European and American lineages, testing the complexity of her ‘poetic artifice’ against Forrest-Thomson’s theory and offering ‘other’ intellectual and literary contexts of her work. Such contexts activate alternative questions for the poetry, such as the role and function of form in carrying epistemological and cognitive information, or the ways in which poetry offers a critique of lyric singularity, address and subjectivity. A more sustained concentration on Plath’s poetic artifice offers new intellectual contexts as well as alternative horizons for understanding the afterlife of her work.Citation
Farmer G (2019) 'An Alternative Afterlife: Plath’s Experimental Poetics', in Brain T (ed(s).). Sylvia Plath in Context, edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp.328-.Publisher
Cambridge University PressAdditional Links
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556200.032Type
Book chapterLanguage
enISBN
9781108470131ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/9781108556200.032