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An Alternative Afterlife: Plath’s Experimental Poetics

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Abstract

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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Output type

Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Chapter
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 328

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/08/2019

Publication status

Published - 01/08/2019

Place of publication

Cambridge

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781108470131

ISBN (Electronic)

9781108556200

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624716
  • Scopus: 85133094141

Host publication title

Sylvia Plath in Context

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