| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reassessing Anne Sexton / Amanda Golden -- "The house of herself": reading place and space in the poetry of Anne Sexton / Jo Gill -- Anne Sexton's photographic self-fashioning / Anita Helle -- Anne Sexton's institutional voice / Kamran Javadizadeh -- Reading, voice, and performance: "The Freak Show" revisited / Victoria Van Hyning -- From the podium to the second row: the vanishing feel of an Anne Sexton reading / Christopher Grobe -- "Two Sweet Ladies": Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's friendship and mutual influence / David Trinidad -- Are we fake?: images of Anne Sexton, twentieth-century woman/poet / Kathleen Ossip -- The poet has collapsed: coming to terms with Anne Sexton's late poetics and public persona / Jeffery Conway -- "The speaker in this case": Anne Sexton as tale-teller in transformations / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Anne Sexton and the wild animal: an exploration of the bestiary poems / Dorothea Lasky. |
| Summary |
This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Golden, Amanda, 1979- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] |
| ISBN |
9780813062204 (cloth) |
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9780813052571 (electronic bk.) |
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