Publication Date
2015
Publication Place
-
Leiden University Press
Subject
Farrukhzād, Furūgh -- Criticism and interpretation., Farrukhzаѕd, Furuѕgh -- Criticism and interpretation., Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation., Reflection (Philosophy) in literature., Women authors, Iranian -- Biography.
Type
Book
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
381
Physical Dimensions
1 electronic resource (381 pages).
Library
University College Dublin Library
Library Asset ID
9789400602076 ePDF, 9400602073, 9789400602083 ePub, 9400602081, 9087282249 (pbk.), 9789087282240 (pbk.), 9789087282967 (electronic bk.), 9087282966 (electronic bk.)
Record ID
b2849290
Library Location
In collection: Ebook Central Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Date
2015
Notes
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Sample Text
This study explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women. To illustrate some of these meanings, the author draws upon the mirror imagery and the psycho-emotional experience of specular reflection in the works of the Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and the American poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of the twentieth-century womanhood. The impossibility of reconciling these contradictory images is manifested at times in their failure to recognize their own mirror-images. For them, the mirror becomes a heterotopic site of entrapment or a utopian space of emancipation.
Erişim
Open Access
Bibliyografya
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seri
Iranian studies series, Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
