This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton / edited by Amanda Golden.

Other author Golden, Amanda, 1979- editor.
Format Book
PublicationGainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Copyright Date©2016
Descriptionx, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2016035946
ISBN9780813062204 (cloth)
ISBN0813062209 (cloth)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3537 .E915 Z94 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold