{"product_id":"revising-life-susan-r-van-dyne-9780807844878","title":"Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems","description":"'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan R. Van Dyne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080784487X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807844878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 5.25w x 0.59d","brand":"Susan R. Van Dyne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120279843071,"sku":"9780807844878","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84ec2eb5-51b4-404c-a95b-3397a5f399c9.jpg?v=1687413472","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revising-life-susan-r-van-dyne-9780807844878","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}