Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath

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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely...

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Main Author: Rahimi Bahmany, Leila (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Leiden Leiden University Press 2015
Series:Iranian Studies Series
Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Literature
God
Metaphor
Mirror image
Narcissism
Sigmund Freud
Stanza
Sylvia Plath
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Summary:Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary 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 twentieth-century womanhood.
ISBN:9789087282240
9789087282967
9789400602076
Access:Open Access

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