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Claiming Sylvia Plath : The Poet as Exemplary Figure.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, (2013)

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Over the years, Sylvia Plath has come to inhabit a contested area of cultural production with other ambiguous authors between the highbrow, the middlebrow, and the popular. Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical and comprehensive reception study of what has been written about Plath from 1960 to 2010. Academic and popular interest in her seems incessant, verging on a public obsession. The story of Sylvia Plath is not only the story of a writer and her texts, but also of the readers who have tried ... The constitution of a poet -- Critics -- Feminists -- Biographers -- Psychologists -- Friends -- The use and abuse of a poet.

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