A Textual Perspective on the Mythology of Sylvia Plath: The History and Interpretations of "Ariel"

Anton  Belenetsky

doi:10.55225/hcs.680

Autor

Anton Belenetsky Uniwersytet Jagielloński

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55225/hcs.680

Słowa kluczowe:

Ariel, biografia, mitologia literacka, krytyka tekstu, mity Plath, Sylvia Plath

Abstrakt

Pośmiertna publikacja tomu Ariel Sylvii Plath w 1965 roku zapoczątkowała powstanie mitu Plath, splatając jej tragiczną śmierć z odbiorem jej twórczości. Podczas gdy wielu krytyków, zwłaszcza o feministycznych poglądach, próbowało odejść od napędzanej biografią dychotomii szalonej kobiety/geniusza, często nieświadomie utrwalali mit, ciągle skupiając się na kontekstach biograficznych, a nie na twórczości Plath. W niniejszym artykule przeanalizowano przełomowy esej Marjorie Perloff z 1984 roku, zatytulowany The Two Ariels, w którym autorka krytykuje wpływ redaktorski Teda Hughesa na tom Ariel, argumentując, że jego zmiany zniekształciły zamierzoną przez Plath narrację o kobiecej wściekłości i nadziei, kładąc nacisk na śmierć i rozpacz. Choć Perloff przywraca oryginalną strukturę narracyjną Plath, autorka artykułu twierdzi, że twórczość Plath nadal funkcjonuje w ramach wyznaczonych przez Hughesa, koncentrując się na wierszach, które pominął. W związku z tym artykuł apeluje o bardziej rygorystyczną krytykę tekstu Ariela i jego paratekstów, opowiadając się za podejściem filologicznym, które pozwoliłoby na bardziej wyważone zrozumienie twórczości Plath, wolne od ograniczeń mitologizacji.

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Anton Belenetsky - Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Anton Belenetskyi is a doctoral student at the Jagiellonian University Doctoral School in the Humanities where he is working on a PhD thesis concerning uncertainty as the principal experience of the Anthropocene as represented in the 21^st-century U.S. and Canadian literature. Although his main academic interests now lie in the intersection of ecocriticism, feminist new materialisms, and broadly understood Anthropocene studies, his master’s thesis was written on the intertwinement of ecological awareness and ecological anxiety in Sylvia Plath’s oeuvre. Outside the world of academia and literature, he prefers to spend his free time rearing (and being reared by) his companion species of choice—common houseplants

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