Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence
- ISBN-10
- 1472513932
- ISBN-13
- 9781472513939
- Series
- Sylvia Plath
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-13
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- David Holbrook
Description
Admirers of the work of Sylvia Plath will welcome this new paperback edition of a study, first published by The Athlone Press in 1976, which provides coherent and persuasive readings of her poetry. Drawing upon the traditional skills of the literary critic, David Holbrook also deploys the illumination of both psychoanalysis and phenomenology in a pioneering work of literary, individual and cultural interpretation.
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