Carl rollyson sylvia plath biography
His new biography The Last Day of Sylvia Plath is the first book on Plath published after the collection of her correspondence came to light in.!
Author’s Note
Preface
Sources and Acknowledgments
Part One: The Early Years
Part Two: The Middle Years
Part Three: The Later Years
Postscript
Notes
Index
A unique analysis of the media, literature, and pop culture that shaped Sylvia Plath’s literary achievement
Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel.
In this meticulously researched biography, Carl Rollyson explores the intricate of literature, cinema, spirituality, psychology, and popular culture.
Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath has also been fueled in part by the tragic nature of her death. As a result, a steady stream of biographies of Plath have appeared over the last fifty-five years that mainly focus on her death or contain projections of an array of points of view about the writer.
Until now, little sustained attention has been paid to the influences on Plath’s life and work.
What movies did she watch? Which books did she read? How did media shape he
