Recounts the troubled life of the American poet and uses her unpublished letters and journals to depict the feelings that led her to suicide

Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Vermilion Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

WAGNER-MARTIN, Linda

Arts & Literature

St. Martin's: Griffin

Wagner-Martin, a respected scholar of American modernism and former president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, offers a comprehensive guide to the novel's genesis, plot, background, themes, style, and critical reception. Each chapter overviews a significant element of the novel and includes thorough documentation. A bibliographic essay is also included.
A landmark of American literature, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929) is one of the most widely read and studied novels of the 20th century. Written by a respected scholar of American modernism and former president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, this reference is a comprehensive guide to the novel's genesis, plot, background, themes, style, and critical reception. Each chapter overviews a significant element of the novel and includes thorough documentation. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay, which provides summaries of current criticism in such fields as gender and feminist theory, medical humanities, and lesbian and gay studies.

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Guides to Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Greenwood

The emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer. She studies elements of Plath's work with dedication to discussions of style and effect. Close attention to Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing in both fiction and poetry provides information helpful to understanding the late work of the 1960s. The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing.

Sylvia Plath--A Literary Life

St.Martin's Press

A biography of the American writer reveals Plath's crucial relationship with her mother, her growth as a writer, Anne Sexton's influence on her writing, her first suicide attempt, and her marriage with Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath: A Biography

Community & Culture

Simon&Schuster

Sylvia Plath

Chatto&Windus

The Great Writers series explores the lives of some of the most talked about literary figures of the past half-century. Kentucky native Kingsolver gained recognition as a contemporary author for works such as The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Ages 15+.

Barbara Kingsolver (Great Writers)

david-king-dunaway

Chelsea House Pub

The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostaglia (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

Wagner-Martin, Linda, Agosta, Lucien L.

Twayne Pub

Wagner-Martin (English and comparative literature, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) examines the historical and social influences of Wharton's time, devotes one chapter to each of the principal characters, and finally considers the novel from several literary perspectives: as a "novel of manners," as a "traditional" novel, and as a "modern" novel. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945: A Critical History (Twayne's Critical History of the Novel)

Though her life was brief, the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-63) exerted a profound influence on contemporary writers, particularly women writers of the sixties and seventies. Just as to her Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry Plath brought a decidedly feminist perspective, so too did she etch in her novel The Bell Jar a disturbing vision of life for young women in America at midcentury. The Bell Jar - based on Plath's own experiences as a student at Smith College, an intern at Mademoiselle, and a young woman battling for her own sanity amid societal mores of the times - was initially published in England under a pseudonym, its American publication stifled for years by the writer's family. When, however, the 1963 novel was finally released to U.S. audiences in 1971, it achieved both critical and popular success, and has since become a classic of feminist literature and a unique vehicle for better appreciating Plath's gifts.It is through a multifaceted lens that Linda Wagner-Martin examines The Bell Jar in this new study. Whereas past critical attention has centered on The Bell Jar as autobiography, Wagner-Martin transcends that approach, looking as well at the novel in its larger context of the social and historical forces shaping women's lives in America during the fifties and sixties. Thus eschewing a simplistic reading of the novel, the author plumbs issues of gender, genre, and narrative voice. Arguing that Plath's troubled personal history was the product of her struggle against contemporary social forces, Wagner-Martin reviews the writer's prior work and inspects earlier, partial versions of the novel; explores Plath's use of humor and sarcasm; traces the writer's representation of patriarchal structures in the novel; and ultimately places the novel squarely in the tradition of works about women at odds with a society dominated by patriarchal values. A brilliantly argued, eminently readable approach to this masterpiece, The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties is certain to be lauded by scholars and students alike.

The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

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Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Vermilion Books)

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Guides to Literature)

Sylvia Plath--A Literary Life

Sylvia Plath: A Biography

Sylvia Plath

Barbara Kingsolver (Great Writers)

The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostaglia (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostaglia (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945: A Critical History (Twayne's Critical History of the Novel)

The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)