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This is a biography of the imagination, an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called the body's journey through language. After an introductory look at the roles played by language and silence in Plath's verbal universe, Axelrod explores the ways in which the poet's father -- and father figures, including male literary precursors -- interfered with her imagination even as they helped shape it. He describes Plath's ambiguous relations with her mother and with the two literary forebears who took the mother's place -- Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson. And he examines Plath's doubling relationship to her husband, describing how she eventually transferred her doubling impulse to her texts. Axelrod concludes by suggesting a link between Plath's discontinuous narrative of the double and her personal fate.<p>Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words offers illuminating and often revolutionary readings of all of Plath's major texts, including such poems as Daddy and Three Women, her novel, The Bell Jar, and her letters and journals. At once sympathetic an

Author

Professor Steven Gould Axelrod

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801839955

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Rating

3.67 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13