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CAMER A WORK IN AUTO-PORTRAITURE; 'IN THE PICTURE I HAVE OF YOU': ANNOTATING A PHOTOGRAPH OF OTTO PL ATH; NOTES; CHAPTER 3 'O the tangles of that old bed': fantasies of incest and the 'Daddy' narrative in Ariel: Cover; REPRESENTING SYLVIA PLATH; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Purdah' and the enigma of representation; PART I Contexts; CHAPTER 1 'Mailed into space': on Sylvia Plath's letters; NOTES; CHAPTER 2 'The photographic chamber of the eye': Plath, photography and the post-confessional muse; MAKING A FACE
NOTESCHAPTER 4 Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath's imagery of the Holocaust; NOTES; PART II Poetics and composition; CHAPTER 5 'The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue': sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath's 'tree poems'; THE THEATRICAL LANDSCAPE; 'ELM''S EERI E SELF-REVISIONING; L ANDSCAPES 'IN ME'; INTERCESSORY FIGURES; THE DARK THING WITHIN; NOTES; CHAPTER 6 Coming to terms with colour: Plath's visual aesthetic; COLOURED INKS; 'WATERCOLOR MOOD': THE POEM AS VERBAL ICON; THE FEAR OF COLOUR; FEEDING ONRED: 'YADWIGHA'
COLOUR, BODY AND VOICE: PLATH'S EXPRESSIONIST POEMS'RED WAS YOUR COLOUR'; COMING TO TERMS WI TH COLOUR : THE SECRET V ISUAL ARCHIVE; NOTES; CHAPTER 7 'Madonna (of the Refrigerator)': mapping Sylvia Plath's double in 'The Babysitters' drafts; FIRST IMPRESSIONS; 'MADONNA' DRAFT ONE; 'MADONNA (OF THE REFRIGERATOR)' DRAFT TWO; DRAFT THREE; DRAFTS FOUR TO EIGHT; NOTES; CHAPTER 8 'Procrustean identity': Sylvia Plath's women's magazine fiction; HELP WANTED: WOMEN'S MAGAZINE FEATURES; REGULAR AMERICAN WITCHES: WOMEN'S MAGAZINE STORIES; INDEFINABLE SOMETHINGS: PL ATH'S STORIES; NOTES
PART III RepresentationCHAPTER 9 Confession, contrition and concealment: evoking Plath in Ted Hughes's Howls & Whispers; NOTES; CHAPTER 10 Fictionalizing Sylvia Plath; NOTES; CHAPTER 11 Primary representations: three artists respond to Sylvia Plath; Adolescent Plath: The Girl Who Would Be God; PLAYING AT GOD; THE EMERGING DEBUTANTE; THE SOUND WORLD; Bodily imprints: a choreographic response to Sylvia Plath's 'poppy poems'; A NEW AND COMMISSIONED BODY; GETTING THERE; Stella Vine's peanut-crunching Plath; CREATION MYTHS; TELLING DISNEY TALES; THE MIMETIC DEEP FREEZE; EXPRESSIONISTIC GESTURES