{"product_id":"revising-life-sylvia-plaths-ariel-poems-9780807844878","title":"Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan R. Van Dyne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life -- the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.'\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e '[Examines] Plath's twin goals of becoming a famous poet and a perfect mother. . . . This book's main points are clearly and forcefully argued: that both poems and babies require 'struggle, pain, endless labor, and . . . fears of monstrous offspring' and that, in the end, Plath ran out of the resources necessary to produce both. Often maligned as a self-indulgent confessional poet, Plath is here retrieved as a passionate theorist.' -- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Susan Van Dyne's reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plath's journal entries from 1957 to 1959 (especially as they reveal her conflicts over what it meant to be a middle-class wife and mother and an aspiring writer in 1950s America); the interpretive strategies of feminist theory; and Plath's multiple revisions of the poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614896046231,"sku":"9780807844878","price":4650.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807844878.webp?v=1775097334","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/revising-life-sylvia-plaths-ariel-poems-9780807844878","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}