Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath /

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This study explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women. To illustrate some of these meanings, the author draws upon the mirror imagery and the psycho-emotional experience of specular reflection in the works of the Persian poet Forugh F...

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Autor principal: Rahimi Bahmany, Leila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Persian
Publicado: [Leiden, Netherlands] : Leiden University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Farrukhzād, Furūgh.
Farrukhzād Furūgh > Criticism and interpretation.
Plath Sylvia, > Criticism and interpretation.
Farrukhzād, Furūgh > Criticism and interpretation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Women authors, Iranian.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Women Authors.
Literature : history and criticism.
Literature and literary studies.
Literary studies : poetry and poets.
Écrivaines iraniennes > Biographies.
Women authors, Iranian > Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This study explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women. To illustrate some of these meanings, the author draws upon the mirror imagery and the psycho-emotional experience of specular reflection in the works of the Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and the American poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of the twentieth-century womanhood. The impossibility of reconciling these contradictory images is manifested at times in their failure to recognize their own mirror-images. For them, the mirror becomes a heterotopic site of entrapment or a utopian space of emancipation.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (386 pages).
ISBN:9789400602076
Acceso:Open Access

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