{"product_id":"revising-life-sylvia-plaths-ariel-poems-paperback","title":"Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan R. Van Dyne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e ' 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.'--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Providing 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 tension in the poetry and life.' -Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan R. Van Dyne, professor of English and women's studies at Smith College, is coeditor of \"Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.19 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722863153215,"sku":"9780807844878","price":82.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2bcd30d0770638fb1fc044674a07dc2f.webp?v=1765097216","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/revising-life-sylvia-plaths-ariel-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}