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 34 - P(l)athography: Plath and Her Biographers
from Part VIII - The Creative Afterlife
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
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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
Summary
Heather Clark reveals the powerful impact of Plath biographers. Splicing the words pathology, biography, and Plath’s name, she coins the term P(l)athographers. Clark helps us to understand their cumulative practice of distortedly mythologizing Plath and misdirecting readers’ interpretations of her writing. For Clark, Plath’s English Tripos exam at Cambridge offers us more understanding of Plath’s poetics than her relationship with her dead father ever could.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 360 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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