Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 11 Plath and Food
- Chapter 12 Plath and Fashion
- Chapter 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath’s Poetry and Auteur Cinema
- Chapter 14 Plath and Television
- Chapter 15 Plath and Art
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 15 - Plath and Art
from Part III - Cultural Contexts
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Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 11 Plath and Food
- Chapter 12 Plath and Fashion
- Chapter 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath’s Poetry and Auteur Cinema
- Chapter 14 Plath and Television
- Chapter 15 Plath and Art
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Jane Hedley accounts for Plath’s descriptive and interpretive practice of poems that take art as their subject. Plath’s ekphrastic poems can be seen as interventions in a conversation with canonical predecessors from Keats to Auden, and can be traced not just to her deliberate study of art history, but to the studies she made as a visual artist, before she made the decision in young adulthood to concentrate on writing.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 157 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019