Aspects of identity : poet, persona and performance in Sylvia Plath's Ariel.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Murray, Sally-Ann. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Esterhuizen, Leigh Caron. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-19T06:32:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-12-19T06:32:09Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2010 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Female identity in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel collection (first published in 1965) is a complex site of being and becoming within a 1950s culture of performance. From a twenty-first century perspective, this dissertation bridges traditional and contemporary readings of Plath and the Plath archive through a referencing of motifs such as celebrity, ‘the gaze’, ventriloquism and clothing. The inter-discursive approach used – literary, psychoanalytic, cultural – attempts to underline the ongoing significance of Plath’s place as a woman poet in literary studies. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4644 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en |
| dc.subject | Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. | en |
| dc.subject | Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation. | en |
| dc.subject | Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. | en |
| dc.subject | Theses--English. | en |
| dc.title | Aspects of identity : poet, persona and performance in Sylvia Plath's Ariel. | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |