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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.

Plath, Sylvia --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thematology --- United States --- Great Britain --- Criticism and interpretation --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- United States of America --- Writers --- Book

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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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"When looking back today on the American poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, we see that for many of the major--and still dominant--poets of the period, the confessional mode was a vital force. It made--and, of course, was shaped by--Robert Lowell, whose 1959 Life Studies prompted the delineation of the style. It galvanized Sylvia Plath, sustained Anne Sexton, and provided a useful countertradition even for those who never identified themselves as "confessional" (most obviously Elizabeth Bishop). It also proved fundamental to the careers of many poets of the next generation (including Thom Gunn and Sharon Olds)--even as such successors to the original "school" spent much of their time resisting, or at least rethinking, the terms of the debate"--

Men and literature --- Confession in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers and sons in literature. --- American poetry --- Literature and men --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism.

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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