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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sarah Berry Derek Walcott’s Harry Dernier and Sylvia Plath’s Three Women , two little-known, midcentury radio plays, cultivate characters who sound like the speaker of a lyric poem, even as they foreground the invisible bodies behind the voices. In offering us voices that both invite and obstruct...
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Figure 2 Sylvia Plath, “Triple-Face Portrait” (1951). Tempura on canvas. Courtesy of Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. © 2022 Estate of Sylyia Plath.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Birger Vanwesenbeeck In the fall of 1954, enrolled in an undergraduate intermediate German course, Sylvia Plath undertook a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Ein Prophet.” Though this translation has received only scant attention from scholars, it represents Plath’s first poetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
... for Sylvia Plath’s death and demonized as
the oppressive male—a callous brute in the Hemingway tradition, hyper
bolized (again by Alvarez) as having gone “through swaths of women, like
a guy harvesting corn” (212). We might see the warm and sympathetic
figure from Elaine Feinstein’s biography...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 164–173.
Published: 01 March 2013
...).
The topic of Bryant’s fourth chapter, Sylvia Plath’s ambivalent rela-
tionship to domesticity, is an interesting choice given Plath’s persistent
reception as feminist poet par excellence, a writer whose fame in part
relies upon her savage critique of motherhood and marriage and upon
her dedicated...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 59–87.
Published: 01 March 2004
... with something more sustaining
than mere narcissism” (230). He also quotes, approvingly, Sylvia Plath’s
comment: “I think that personal experience shouldn’t be a kind of shut
box and a mirror-looking narcissistic experience. I believe it should be
generally relevant to such things as Hiroshima and Dachau...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by Corcoran Neil , 117 – 30 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Plath Sylvia . 2018 . The Letters of Sylvia Plath . Edited by Steinberg Peter K. Kukil Karen V. London : Faber and Faber . Sherry Vincent . 1989 . “ Hectic Stasis: The War Poetry of Keith Douglas...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... what she calls the “entanglement of the literal and figurative” (4) in the work of Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Frank Bidart, Mark Doty, Paul Monette, D. A. Powell, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and Susan Howe. Plath, Rich, Graham, and Howe are each given their own chapters, and for the most...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 105–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... ’Hara, Charles Olson, Elizabeth Bishop,
Sylvia Plath,Amira Baraka, and Jack Spicer (with extended attention to
individual works by Kenneth Rexroth, Edward Field, John Wieners, Audre
Lorde, Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others)—and emphasiz
ing the pioneer work these writers accomplished...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of only two women to whom Heaney dedicates an essay: the other is Sylvia Plath, whom he casts as a foil to Bishop. Although he would not dedicate an essay to Bishop until The Redress of Poetry , Heaney’s extensive commentary on her work in the title essay of The Government of the Tongue sits in tension...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 March 2011
... fiction” as writing that “open[s] up a space
in which market relations are set to work organizing experience” (15).
This hybrid form of the aesthetic and the economic first appears in the
figure of the “maniac” (in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar and Amiri
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2000
... on Sylvia
Plath’s Bee Poems.” 42.4 (1996): 526-34
Perrino, Mark. “Marketing Insults: Wyndham Lewis and the Arthur Press.” 41.1
(1995): 54-80
Pitofsky, Alex. “Dreiser’s The Financier and the Horatio Alger Myth.” 44.3 (1998):
276-90
Pizer, Donald. “The Naturalism of Edith W harton’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 260–282.
Published: 01 June 2013
..., to that of Sylvia Plath, whose
thoroughgoing dedication to the inside track to literary success is amply
documented in her journals. Like Plath, Ashbery was precocious. He
won spelling bees and prizes just like she did. While still in high school,
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Jesse Zuba
he published poems in Poetry, just...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 277–285.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of being in
and of itself” (104). After a brief discussion of the filmInvasion of the Body
Snatchers, she adduces Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as an example of the view
that mental illness arises in and from community life, not in and from
individual biology. Plath’s novel comes to seem like part...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
... perhaps makes too much: how could Alvarez, who famously rejected Movement poetics and “gentility” (quoted in Quinn, 99) in all its forms, also reject the Beats? Throughout the 1960s, Quinn writes, Alvarez consistently valued how Extremist poets (e.g., Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath) turned “political motifs...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 425–433.
Published: 01 December 2024
... be helpful for teachers of poetry associated with the confessional label. When reading a Lowell poem like “Waking in the Blue,” or a poem by confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton, the temptation is to be seduced by the first-person, lyric speaker such that the reader conflates the poetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... a gendered hierarchy of labor and status.”
Consequently, in early second-wave feminist texts like Sylvia Plath’s The
Bell Jar and Mary McCarthy’s The Group, we find paradoxical scenarios
in which “working in publishing—not being an author oneself—serves
as the sign of liberation, maturation...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 150–173.
Published: 01 June 2002
... in The Medusa (Fall 1946J and then in The Black Swan. He once
characterized this poem, as if to forestall the interpretation given here, as
a “poem without content, really” (Recitative 42). On the contrary, the
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Timothy Materer
poem resembles Sylvia Plath’s “The Colossus” as an early, crucial...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 99–110.
Published: 01 March 2014
... manner of mid-century poetic icons
like Diane Levertov, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton (Juhasz 35). Second-
wave feminists, who prefer their “I”’s in quotation marks, the better to
deconstruct them, have taken to Moore in greater numbers, at least within
the academy. Yet even rigorous-minded...
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