TY - BOOK ID - 77874956 TI - Revising life : Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems PY - 1993 SN - 0807866067 9780807866061 080784487X 0807821020 9780807821022 9780807844878 9798890867346 PB - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963 KW - Literary Criticism KW - Plath, Sylvia KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874956 AB - 'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life--the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.'Choice '[Examines] Plath's twin goals of becoming a famous poet and a perfect mother. . . . This book's main points are clearly and forcefully argued: that both poems and babies require 'struggle, pain, endless labor, and . . . fears of monstrous offspring' and that, in the end, Plath ran out of the resources necessary to produce both. Often maligned as a self-indulgent confessional poet, Plath is here retrieved as a passionate theorist.'--Library Journal Susan Van Dyne's reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plath's 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 Plath's multiple revisions of the poems. ER -