This Business of Words : Reassessing Anne Sexton

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This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golden, Amanda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sexton, Anne, > 1928-1974.
Sexton, Anne, > 1928-1974 > Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poetes americains > 20e siecle > Critique et interpretation.
Poets, American > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; THIS BUSINESS OF WORDS; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Introduction: Reassessing Anne Sexton ; 1. "The house / of herself": Reading Place and Space in the Poetry of Anne Sexton ; 2. Anne Sexton's Photographic Self-Fashioning.
  • 3. Anne Sexton's Institutional Voice 4. Reading, Voice, and Performance: "The Freak Show" Revisited ; 5. From the Podium to the Second Row: The Vanishing Feel of an Anne Sexton Reading ; 6. "Two Sweet Ladies": Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's Friendship and Mutual Influence.
  • 7. Are We Fake? Images of Anne Sexton, Twentieth-Century Woman/Poet 8. The Poet Has Collapsed: Coming to Terms with Anne Sexton's Late Poetics and Public Persona ; 9. "The Speaker in This Case": Anne Sexton as Tale-Teller in Transformations.
  • 10. Anne Sexton and the Wild Animal: An Exploration of the Bestiary Poems List of Contributors ; Index.

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