“저 통합하는 정신, 저 형체를 만드는 힘”: 실비아 플라스의 시적 고백과 여성적 표현

• 영문명: “That Synthesizing Spirit, That ‘Shaping’ Force”: Sylvia Plath’s Poetic Confessionalism and Female Expressiveness.
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 최태숙(Tae sook Choi)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제130호, 149~165쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.09.30

영문 초록

This paper explores Plath’s poetic confessionalism by focusing upon her female expressiveness and poetic techniques that interrogate the gendered binary. While presented as personal, the metaphors of pregnancy and motherhood, and floral imagery in her poems disrupt the symbolic idealizations of archetypal feminity. As I will argue, confessionalism represents a troubled feature in Plath’s work that we repeatedly feel called upon to examine. Rather than seeking a real Plath brought about by the public exposure of her life, my primary focus will be upon the way in which Plath posits poetry as means by which to challenge conventional assumptions about gender, literary tradition, and metaphors. These aspects of her poems will be explored with particular reference to Dowson’s elaboration of Pollard’s notion of a new confessionalism, allowing for both critical and poetic processes. Of particular interest is how Plath’s poetic confessionalism through her skilful treatment of confessional elements enables a refreshing female aesthetic.

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The Silent Woman confessionalism symbolic idealization metaphor gender motherhood 『말이 없는 여자』 고백주의 상징적 이상화 은유 젠더 모성