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Aspects of identity : poet, persona and performance in Sylvia Plath's Ariel.

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2010

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Female identity in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel collection (first published in 1965) is a complex site of being and becoming within a 1950s culture of performance. From a twenty-first century perspective, this dissertation bridges traditional and contemporary readings of Plath and the Plath archive through a referencing of motifs such as celebrity, ‘the gaze’, ventriloquism and clothing. The inter-discursive approach used – literary, psychoanalytic, cultural – attempts to underline the ongoing significance of Plath’s place as a woman poet in literary studies.

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Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.

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Plath, Sylvia. Ariel., Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation., Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature., Theses--English.

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