Plath Profiles
An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies
Volume 5: Deadline 1 April 2012
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On Offer: Sylvia Plath Interdisciplinary Masterclass
Oxford University, July 2-5 2012 Finding a Voice: Sylvia Plath's Poetic Landscapes
Led by Dr. Sally Bayley of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University, this class will take a selection of Sylvia Plath's poetic manuscripts as a starting point for exploring the process of Plath's poetic composing. The particular focus will be on Plath's mature landscape poems, "Winter Trees," "Crossing the Water," "Little Fugue," "The Moon and the Yew Tree" and "Elm" in which the speaker devises and revises a poetic identity through several drafted stages. The quotient points of her identity shift between inner and outer worlds as the poems come into focus and her personae begin to speak. For more information...
