Julia Gordon-Bramer

The Occult Sylvia Plath (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and Tarot-related references in many of Plath's poems • Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath's unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University • Examines the influences of Plath's parents, her early interests in Hermeticism, and her and husband Ted Hughes's explorations in the supernatural and the occult Sharing her more than 15 years of compelling researchincluding analysis of Sylvia Plath's unpublished calendars, notebooks, scrapbooks, book annotations, and underlinings as well as published memoirs, biographies, letters, journals, and interviews with Plath and her husband, friends, and familyPlath scholar Julia Gordon-Bramer reveals Sylvia Plath's enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963. She examines Plath's early years growing up in a transcendentalist Unitarian church under a brilliant, if stern, Freemason father and a mother who wrote her master's dissertation on the famous alchemist Paracelsus. She reveals Plath's early knowledge of Hermeticism, how she devoured books on the occult throughout her life, and how, since adolescence, Plath regularly wrote of premonitory dreams. Examining Plath's tumultuous marriage with poet Ted Hughes, she looks at their explorations in the supernatural and Hughes's mentoring of Plath in meditation, crystal-gazing, astrology, Qabalah, tarot, automatic writing, magical workings, and use of the Ouija board. Looking at Plath's writing and her evolution as a person through mystical, political, personal, and historical lenses, Gordon-Bramer shows how Plath's poems take on radically new, surprising, and universal meaningsexplaining why Hughes perpetually denied that Plath was a "confessional poet." Contrasting the versions in Letters Home with those held in the Plath archives at Indiana University, the author also shows how all occult influences have been rigorously excised from the letters approved for publication by the Plath and Hughes estates. Revealing previously undiscovered meanings deeply rooted in her mystical and occult endeavors, the author shows how Plath's writings are much broader than the narrow lens of her tragic autobiography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644118634
• Artikelnr.: 68595812

Autorenporträt

Julia Gordon-Bramer is a professional Tarot card reader, award-winning writer and poet, Sylvia Plath scholar, and former professor for the Graduate Writing Program at Lindenwood University. She has appeared on MTV, Nickelodeon, and many television and radio shows to share her Tarot talents and scholarship. Recognized as one of St. Louis' Top Ten Psychics (Psychic St. Louis) and St. Louis' Best Fortune-Teller (CBS Radio), she is the author of several books, including Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Missing the Mysticism
PART ONE
Sylvia Plath
1 “April Aubade”
2 “Love Is a Parallax”
3 “Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea”
4 “Family Reunion”
5 “Denouement”
6 “Aerialist”
7 “Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light”
8 “Morning in the Hospital Solarium”
9 “Notes to a Neophyte”
10 “Dialogue En Route”
PART TWO
Ted Hughes
11 “Ode to Ted”
12 “Sonnet to Satan”
13 “Firesong”
PART THREE
Plath and Hughes, Together
14 “Pursuit”
15 “Wreath for a Bridal”
16 “Bucolics”
17 “The Lady and the Earthenware Head”
18 “Ouija”
19 “A Winter’s Tale”
20 “Electra on Azalea Path”
21 “The Manor Garden”
22 “Magi”
23 “Parliament Hill Fields”
24 “The Moon and the Yew Tree”
25 “Three Women”
26 “Burning the Letters”
27 “Fever 103°”
28 “Edge”
PART FOUR
After Plath
29 “Contusion”
30 “Gigolo”
31 “Mystic”
32 “Words”
Acknowledgments
Primary Sources: Abbreviation List
Sylvia’s Library
Index