This Ph.D. thesis analyzes the literary works of American poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath in light of Women’s and Gender Studies and considers the notions of myth and disenchantment. Plath and Sexton were labeled “confessional” poets; this study’s first section seeks to understand the underlying mechanisms of this appellation and how it participated in the construction of myths around the two poets and also aims to deconstruct these myths. Plath and Sexton met at the end of the ‘50s and influenced each other. Their poetics of disenchantment are a common trait in their literary works, from their “confessional” poems to their rewriting of fairy tales and myths which may be called “anti-tales.” Although their poetic styles differ, the theme...
Reading literary biographies, and particularly the biographies of women who were writers, raises imp...
Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and famous poets in the 20th century. Not only her unbeliev...
Though much early criticism describes Anne Sexton's confessional style, noting how her poetry expose...
Cette thèse de doctorat a pour but d’analyser l’œuvre des poètes américaines Anne Sexton et Sylvia P...
In 1963 and 1974, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, respectively, shocked readers with their suicides. S...
This thesis seeks to place the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton within a larger discussion of ...
The theme of Plath's personal life and mental illness overshadowing her writings threads its way thr...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation examines each of the volumes in Anne Sexto...
PhDThe thesis explores the poetry (and some prose) of Plath, Sexton, Atwood and Rich in terms of th...
This thesis explores the context of media culture in mid-twentieth-century America alongside pertine...
Sylvia Plath as a confessional poet is considered a representation of American femininity. She was a...
This project will counter previous critical assumptions of scholarship discounting Plath\u27s early ...
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton lived at the heart of the emergence of confessional poetry in the ninet...
In American history the 1960s mark the beginning of reform movements fighting for the equality of mi...
Sylvia Plath’s poems mirror the ideological aspirations of its social context, and the construction ...
Reading literary biographies, and particularly the biographies of women who were writers, raises imp...
Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and famous poets in the 20th century. Not only her unbeliev...
Though much early criticism describes Anne Sexton's confessional style, noting how her poetry expose...
Cette thèse de doctorat a pour but d’analyser l’œuvre des poètes américaines Anne Sexton et Sylvia P...
In 1963 and 1974, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, respectively, shocked readers with their suicides. S...
This thesis seeks to place the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton within a larger discussion of ...
The theme of Plath's personal life and mental illness overshadowing her writings threads its way thr...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation examines each of the volumes in Anne Sexto...
PhDThe thesis explores the poetry (and some prose) of Plath, Sexton, Atwood and Rich in terms of th...
This thesis explores the context of media culture in mid-twentieth-century America alongside pertine...
Sylvia Plath as a confessional poet is considered a representation of American femininity. She was a...
This project will counter previous critical assumptions of scholarship discounting Plath\u27s early ...
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton lived at the heart of the emergence of confessional poetry in the ninet...
In American history the 1960s mark the beginning of reform movements fighting for the equality of mi...
Sylvia Plath’s poems mirror the ideological aspirations of its social context, and the construction ...
Reading literary biographies, and particularly the biographies of women who were writers, raises imp...
Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and famous poets in the 20th century. Not only her unbeliev...
Though much early criticism describes Anne Sexton's confessional style, noting how her poetry expose...