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
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Chapter 23 Plath’s Journals
- Chapter 24 Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
- Chapter 25 Electroshock Therapy and Plath’s Convulsive Poetics
- Chapter 26 Plath’s Scrapbooks
- Chapter 27 Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 26 - Plath’s Scrapbooks
from Part VI - Biographical Contexts
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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
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Chapter 23 Plath’s Journals
- Chapter 24 Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
- Chapter 25 Electroshock Therapy and Plath’s Convulsive Poetics
- Chapter 26 Plath’s Scrapbooks
- Chapter 27 Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Peter K Steinberg shows us how Plath used scrapbooks as an early means of honing her story telling techniques and narrative skills, combining the linguistic and visual aptitudes that were present throughout her life and developing the art of self-performance and selection that are vital to any artist. Moreover, these relatively overlooked documents are a valuable source of key biographical data that amplify our understanding of the context out of which the work emerged.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 275 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019