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  • Sylvia Plath in Context

    Edited by Tracy Brain ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she encounters, and the wide range of cultural, personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped her work. Many of these ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • The Other Sylvia Plath

    by Tracy Brain ...
    Series series Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
    Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Representing Sylvia Plath

    Edited by Sally Bayley, Tracy Brain ...
    Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sound on the Page

    Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing

    by Ben Yagoda ...
    The acclaimed author examines the importance of a writer's voice—including interviews with Susan Orlean, Michel Chabon, Junot Díaz and others.In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft

    by David Jauss ...
    Possibilities and Paradoxes in the Craft of Fiction The pieces of a satisfying novel or story seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "how on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices. In On Writing Fiction, award-winning author and respected ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

    Edited by Jo Gill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Sylvia Plath's poetry, prose, letters and journals and of their place in twentieth-century culture. These essays by leading international scholars represent a spectrum of critical perspectives. They ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • These Ghostly Archives

    The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

    by Gail Crowther, Peter K. Steinberg ...
    These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath offers a ground-breaking look at Plath studies. Focusing on previously unpublished material found in archives from around the world, These Ghostly Archives aims to reconstruct the ghostly figure of Plath within our culture via unseen letters, manuscripts, photographs, places and poems. This book approaches archival studies exploring both the ... Read more

    $9.38 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

    by Gail Crowther ...
    The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach to studies on this enigmatic literary figure, focusing on the readers rather than the historical figure herself. Working from the premise that Plath is a highly visible cultural figure, this book explores why her readers become so attached to her. Why does she have such a large and devoted following? What is it about her that attracts ... Read more

    $8.04 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sylvia Plath

    Edited by Linda Wagner-Martin ...
    This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ariel's Gift

    Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters

    by Erica Wagner ...
    "This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewWhen Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath. In Ariel ... Read more

    $16.39 USD