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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.

Plath, Sylvia --- Women and literature --- History --- Criticism and interpretation --- Plath, Sylvia, --- Lucas, Victoria --- Hughes, Sylvia --- Plat, Silvii︠a︡ --- Plaṭ, Silviyah --- פלאת, סילביה --- 西爾維婭.普拉斯 --- Plathová, Sylvia --- Phlǣt, Silwīya --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century --- Plath, Sylvia, - 1932-1963 - Criticism and interpretation --- Plath, Sylvia, - 1932-1963

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A collection of essays that provide a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

American literature --- Confession in literature. --- English literature --- Confession --- Auricular confession --- Church discipline --- Forgiveness of sin --- Absolution --- Penance --- History and criticism. --- History

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Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development.

English literature --- Literature and history --- Criticism --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Social aspects --- Technique --- Evaluation --- History in literature --- 820 <09> --- 820.09 --- 82:93 --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- 820.09 Engelse literatuur: literaire kritiek --- Engelse literatuur: literaire kritiek --- 820 <09> Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- History and criticism --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van .. --- Widdowson, Peter. --- History in literature. --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van . --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van