Tracy Brain introduces completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was concerned with a much wider range of important cultural and political topics. .

This is a "biography of the imagination, " an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called "the body's journey through language." After an introductory look at the roles played by language and silence in Plath's verbal universe, Axelrod explores the ways in which the poet'

Second edition.

Suitable for those interested in Sylvia Plath, this title presents the study of Plath's poetry. It shows that Plath's poems form a mythic biography, presided over by a 'Moon-Muse', in which depictions of death are nearly always matched with visions of rebirth and transformation. It is an examination of one of the 20th century's great poets.

With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Plath's original typescript for Ariel and compares it to the version that was published by her estranged husband, Ted Hughes.

This is a study of Sylvia Plath's work. Taking a roughly chronological structure, the author traces the unique nature of Plath's poetic gift, finding an essential unity in her inspiration. He outlines the evolution of recurring themes and demonstrates her development.

Challenges the tendency to see Sylvia Plath's writing in confessional terms. The work draws attention to the dimension of self-reflexivity. It argues that Plath developed a theatrical conception of the speaking subject which made the work of mourning inseparable from its performance in language.

One of the greatest mad, sad literary love affairs of the 20th century was that between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In her collection of poems, Hurdle adapts her own research on their lives to explore the love and loss in this relationship of poetic collaboration and rivalry, which lasts, in Hurdle's recreation, even after Plath's suicide in 1963 and Hughes' death in 1998. At points, the ..

Shows how Sylvia Plath's prose relates to her poetry. The Unabridged Journals will always remain a model for young would-be writers to see what it takes to succeed. The Bell Jar and the short stories are the result of the practice that went into the Journals , illustrating stages in Sylvia's career, as well as aspects of herself.

Interrupted Lives is an original look at the literary reputations of some of our greatest writers whose literary careers were cut tragically short.

The Art of Self Destruction. Women artists, from all disciplines, explore their inner demons, the mechanisms they use to cope and how they channel such anxieties into their work.

Eye Rhymes brings to light a side of Sylvia Plath that is scarcely known: her serious involvement in the visual arts from a very early age. She moved between art-making and writing constantly, integrating their elements with ease and pleasure. As a child she considered a poem she had written or transcribed to be complete only when illustrated by a picture. As a young teen she recorded 'technicolor

Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Writers. An illustrated collection of essays about writers who were also visual artists, and their art.

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives.

A lucid overview of Plath's life, work, influence, and the critical reception of her writings to the present day.

Contains a mix of poems offering emotional and spiritual upliftment. This selection of traditional and contemporary poems are for people who have suffered, or are suffering from depression and mental illness.

Often considered an iconic figure to feminists, Plath is best known for her novel, 'The Bell Jar', and her controversial poetry. This biographical text lends insight to her life and work.

Three classic children's stories from Sylvia Plath are collected together in one volume for the first time, they are: Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit .

The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of other and not me , culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

Reissue of this highly successful collection of short stories about the ties that bind mothers and daughters, by some of the best known women writers