Images of self : a study of feminine and feminist subjectivity in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Rich, 1950-1980

The thesis explores the poetry (and some prose) of Plath, Sexton, Atwood and Rich in terms of the changing constructions of self-image predicated upon the female role between approx. 1950-1980.1 am particularly concerned with the question of how the discourses of femininity and feminism contribute t...

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Main Author: Little, Philippa Susan
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 1990
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302617