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
- Chapter 23 Plath’s Journals
- Chapter 24 Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
- Chapter 25 Electroshock Therapy and Plath’s Convulsive Poetics
- Chapter 26 Plath’s Scrapbooks
- Chapter 27 Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 24 - Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
from Part VI - Biographical Contexts
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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
- Chapter 23 Plath’s Journals
- Chapter 24 Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
- Chapter 25 Electroshock Therapy and Plath’s Convulsive Poetics
- Chapter 26 Plath’s Scrapbooks
- Chapter 27 Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Amanda Golden addresses Plath’s pedagogical strategies in order to shed new light on the ways that her identities as a student, teacher, and poet overlap. Focusing on her teaching of modernism, including the work of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Henry James, Golden shows how Plath’s later writing refashions the language she used as a teacher. Golden draws heavily on the teaching notes Plath made whilst working in the English Department at Smith College, combing through Plath’s lists, lectures, and the passages from critical texts that she highlighted.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 255 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019