Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Chapter 31 An Alternative Afterlife: Plath’s Experimental Poetics
- Chapter 32 British and American Editions of Ariel and The Bell Jar
- Chapter 33 After Plath: The Legacy of Influence
- Chapter 34 P(l)athography: Plath and Her Biographers
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 31 - An Alternative Afterlife: Plath’s Experimental Poetics
from Part VIII - The Creative Afterlife
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Chapter 31 An Alternative Afterlife: Plath’s Experimental Poetics
- Chapter 32 British and American Editions of Ariel and The Bell Jar
- Chapter 33 After Plath: The Legacy of Influence
- Chapter 34 P(l)athography: Plath and Her Biographers
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Following Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s lead, Gareth Farmer repositions Plath’s work in experimental British, European and American lineages, testing the complexity of her ‘poetic artifice’ against Forrest-Thomson’s theory and offering ‘other’ intellectual and literary contexts of her work. Such contexts activate alternative questions for the poetry, such as the role and function of form in carrying epistemological and cognitive information, or the ways in which poetry offers a critique of lyric singularity, address and subjectivity. A more sustained concentration on Plath’s poetic artifice offers new intellectual contexts as well as alternative horizons for understanding the afterlife of her work.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 328 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019