Mourning the father-figure in modern American poetry
The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the process of mourning within the works of five key 'confessional' poets: Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I will use a psychoanalytical framework to explore the reverberations of a father's deat...
Main Author: | Campbell, Maria Regina |
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University of Ulster
2010
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551595 |
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