Love, attachment, and effacement : romantic dimensions in Sylvia Plath’s children poems

Wierzchowska, Justyna

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Love, attachment, and effacement : romantic dimensions in Sylvia Plath’s children poems

dc.contributor.author	Wierzchowska, Justyna
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-21T13:10:00Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-21T13:10:00Z
dc.date.created	2018
dc.date.issued	2019-01-21
dc.description.abstract	This article examines seventeen children poems by Sylvia Plath written in the years 1960 - 63, in relation to the poetics of romantic love. Drawing on motherhood studies ( Klein, 1975; O’Reilly, 2010; Rich, 1976; Winnicott , 1956, 1965, 1967), the maternal shift in psychoanalysis (see Bueskens , 2014 : 3 - 6), and attachment theory (Bowlby , 1950, 1969, 1988), it reads love as a continuous human disposition, informed by one’s attachment history, and realized at different stages of one’s life (Hazan & Shaver , 1987). It specifically refers to Daniel Stern’s and Anthony Giddens’s largely overlapping concepts of maternal and romantic love to argue that Plath’s children poems are significantly infused with a poetics of romantic love. This poetics, however, becomes gradually compromised by a poetics of ambivalence, withdrawal, and self - effac ement.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	15	es
dc.identifier.issn	1989 - 6131
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/66719
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Journal English Studies, Vol. 18(2), 2018	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.subject	Sylvia Plath	es
dc.subject	Children poems	es
dc.subject	Love	es
dc.subject	Romantic love	es
dc.subject	Maternal love	es
dc.subject	Attachment	es
dc.subject	Motherhood	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas	es
dc.title	Love, attachment, and effacement : romantic dimensions in Sylvia Plath’s children poems	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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