IMAGINING INCEST: SEXTON, PLATH, RICH, AND OLDS ON LIFE WITH DADDY.

SWIONTKOWSKI, Gale.

ISBN 10: 1575910616 / ISBN 13: 9781575910611

Published by Susquehanna University Press,, Selinsgrove,, 2004

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publishers black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 1575910616 Pages: 168 Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Ann Sexton etc., Fine in very good dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IMAGINING INCEST: SEXTON, PLATH, RICH, AND OLDS ON LIFE WITH DADDY.
• Publisher: Susquehanna University Press,, Selinsgrove,
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575910616
• ISBN 13: 9781575910611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

Imagining Incest examines daughter-father relations as depicted in the poetry of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Sharon Olds. Swiontkowski demonstrates a progression in these relations from daughter as victim of the father in Sexton and Plath to daughter as rebel against the father in Rich to daughter as successor to the father in Olds. Each poet utilizes the poetic motif of incest in varying degrees to convey this developing relationship, and Swiontkowski shows that the struggles and triumphs inherent in this imagined relationship parallel many of the issues raised in the recent social crisis of recovered memories. Imagining Incest thus casts light on a painful social issue and extends the hope that comparing these four women poets demonstrates that women who have suffered under the tyranny of a patriarchal system can rebel and overcome by confronting and redefining the incestuous nature of their relations with the fathers of society.