Research Catalog

Title

Sylvia Plath : method and madness / Edward Butscher.

Author

Butscher, Edward

Publication

Tucson, Ariz : Schaffner Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xix, 408 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Few modern poets have generated as much controversy as Sylvia Plath. In the aftermath of her suicide in 1963 at the age of thirty, Plath's popularity and stature have steadily increased due to her powerful, self-revelatory imagery and her unflinching stare into the abyss of the human soul. "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness" masterfully explores the paradoxes of this fascinating woman: the overachieving daughter desperate for approval, the tormented poet warring with her demons, the doting mother who abandons her babies, the resentful wife raging against the confines of domesticity and an unfaithful but famous husband. Edward Butscher shows us both victim and avenging goddess. -- From publisher's description.

Subjects

• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• History
• Literature and mental illness > United States > History > 20th century
• Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
• Plath, Sylvia

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [398]-402) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My childhood landscape was not land -- I cast off my identity -- A warm port -- "A very talented teenager" -- Stillness is a lie, my dear -- There is nothing more for me to say -- We are not what we might be -- The cultivated act -- All green dreams -- The panther's tread -- Paring her person down -- In a well-steered county -- You died like any man -- That landscape of imprefections -- A clean slate -- I am two people now -- Lady of the shipwrecked -- The moon is my mother -- I am, I am, I am -- Cauldron of morning -- Words dry and riderless.

ISBN

0971059829

OCLC

• 54382710
• SCSB-11080507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library