Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 11 Plath and Food
- Chapter 12 Plath and Fashion
- Chapter 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath’s Poetry and Auteur Cinema
- Chapter 14 Plath and Television
- Chapter 15 Plath and Art
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 14 - Plath and Television
from Part III - Cultural Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
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Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 11 Plath and Food
- Chapter 12 Plath and Fashion
- Chapter 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath’s Poetry and Auteur Cinema
- Chapter 14 Plath and Television
- Chapter 15 Plath and Art
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Nicola Presley establishes the increasing predominance of television to the American culture out of which Plath’s work emerges. Drawing on advertisements for television in Plath’s beloved Ladies Home Journal as well as contemporary critical thinking on the subject, Presley accounts for Plath’s deliberate engagement with television in her poetry and prose, making a case for Plath’s horror of television’s low artistic values and pernicious effects on those who watch it, yet also arguing for the undeniable visual impact of television on Plath’s writing.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 147 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019