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Sylvia Plath in context
\"In recent years, literary critics have engaged in a variety of new approaches to Sylvia Plath's work. Readers themselves are increasingly aware of the complex array of backgrounds and frameworks which shape Plath's writing. Bringing together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines, Sylvia Plath in Context is an important new landmark in this ongoing project\"-- Provided by publisher.
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650 Concealed pregnancy: from 18th- and 19th- Century Novels and Scientific Texts to 21st- Century Medicine
AimsThe primary objective of this study is to explore the representation of concealed pregnancy in 18th and 19th century novels and medical texts, in order to better understand its persistence into the present time. Subsidiary objectives are to enhance the role of culture in promoting personal development, creativity and well-being for medical practitioners who deal with distressing cases; and to increase understanding of the ways that literature has responded to scientific ideas and progress, and vice versa.MethodsA Literature Research and Suggested Reading and Writing Exercises.ResultsThis joint presentation draws on the cross-fertilisation in method and subject matter between literary and medical texts. It brings together a novelist and literary critic with a community paediatric consultant to promote connections between literary depictions and medical studies of concealed pregnancy. The narrative of seduction, so powerful in the 18th-century novel, influenced the way concealed pregnancy and infanticide was represented not just in novels but also in the medical texts of the period. Because this area is vast, we will present a brief overview before focusing on two exemplary texts. William Hunter’s 1783 paper, ‘On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder, in the Case of Bastard Children’ was of lasting historical importance, and was a probable influence on George Eliot’s compassionate portrayal of concealed pregnancy and possible infanticide in her 1859 novel Adam Bede. We will show how the key ideas in these texts continue to be integral to 21st-century medical research and practice with respect to pregnancy denial, concealed pregnancy and infanticide; they highlight the continued to need for multiple disciplines to intersect in order to make progress in these areas. We will leave participants with a reading exercise and a writing exercise to take away and do on their own, should they wish to.ConclusionThese literary and scientific precursors remain relevant to contemporary practitioners. However, they can be overlooked when we consider how far medical practice has travelled and yet how close it remains to the questions that were being asked about concealed pregnancy, pregnancy denial, and infanticide in the 18th- and 19th- centuries. Despite progress, these tragic outcomes for pregnant women and their new-borns are still with us, and these centuries-old texts remain all too familiar.
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Representing Sylvia Plath
\"Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Representing Sylvia Plath
Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts. The volume evaluates the historical, familial and cultural sources which Plath drew upon for material: from family photographs, letters and personal history to contemporary literary and cinematic holocaust texts. It examines Plath's creative processes: what she does with materials ranging from Romantic paintings to women's magazine fiction, how she transforms these in multiple drafts and the tools she uses to do this, including her use of colour. Finally the book investigates specific instances when Plath herself becomes the subject matter for other artists, writers, film makers and biographers.
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سيطر على وقتك تسيطر على حياتك : النظام المتقدم لتحقيق المزيد من النتائج بصورة أسرع في جميع جوانب حياتك
قد تشعر مثل معظم الناس بأن هناك أشياء كثيرة جدا يجب عملها مع وجود القليل جدا من الوقت المتاح. وبسبب النمو السريع في المعلومات والتكنولوجيا والمنافسة، فقد تسارع معدل التغيير بما يفوق قدرتك على مواكبته. إننا نحتاج اليوم إلى طريقة جديدة ندرك الوقت من خلالها، خاصة أنواع الوقت المختلفة في حياتك. إننا نجد أن كل نشاط ومسئولية في حياتك تتطلب منك أن تتبنى رؤية مختلفة للوقت إذا أردت الحصول على أفضل النتائج من كل شيء تفعله. أنت تحتاج إلى نوع من الوقت لوضع الأهداف وتقرير ما تحتاج إليه فعليا في الحياة، ونوع آخر من الوقت لوضع الأولويات، والتركيز على المهام عالية القيمة وإنجاز الأشياء. كما تحتاج إلى نوع من الوقت للتفاعل والتواصل والتفاوض والإدارة، ونوع آخر من الوقت تقضيه في المنزل مع العائلة وتدير خلاله علاقاتك الأكثر أهمية. وغالبا تكون أنواع الوقت المختلفة كالزيت والماء لا يختلطان معا. فأية محاولة لاستخدام النوع الخطأ من الوقت في المكان الخطأ سوف تؤدي إلى الإحباط والفشل والتقاعس ولذلك جاء الكتاب ليرسخ مفهوم إدارة الوقت.
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Modern Confessional Writing
A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.
Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate and critique conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary act of confession and its assumed relationship to truth, authority and subjectivity are challenged, and in their place a range of new critical perspectives and practices are adopted.
Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new theoretically-informed views on what confessional writing is, how it functions, and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these new perspectives modern confessional writing is liberated from the misconception that it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre.
Introduction. Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically. Confessing the Body: Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of the ‘Real’. ‘To Feel with a Human Stranger’: Adrienne Rich's Post-Holocaust Confession and the Limits of Identification. ‘Your Story. My Story’: Confessional Writing and the Case of Birthday Letters. Bridget Jones’s Diary: Confessing Post-Feminism. ‘The Memoir as Self-Destruction’: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela . Personal Performances: The Resistant Confessions of Bobby Baker. Death Sentences: Confessions of Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness. Cultures of Confession/Cultures of Testimony: Turning the Subject Inside Out. How We Confess Now: Reading the Abu Ghraib Archive. Index
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Fictionalizing Sylvia Plath
This chapter considers those moments where Plath becomes a character in somebody else’s text, whether a novel, a poem, a film or even a biography. Such a representation can be central and sustained, or momentary and incidental. It may involve describing Plath and her actions, or inhabiting her viewpoint, or inventing dialogue for her.To fictionalize a real person in this way risks intrusion into the lives of people connected with her. Artists are often aware of the various problems involved in such intrusion. To consider such representations critically is necessarily to explore the ethical questions involved. It is not only to ask whether a work is written well or badly, but also what responsibilities, if any, the writer owes to accuracy and the feelings of people associated with the person depicted. In the course of such an investigation, one is led to questions about the boundary between fiction and biography.
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