Paul Mitchell

Sylvia Plath és una de les poetes més conegudes i controvertides del segle XX. Des de la seua mort en 1963, el debat crític sobre la seva obra ha estat animat i, en ocasions, fins i tot hostil. Aquesta obra il·lustra com llegir a Plath des d'una perspectiva alternativa, utilitzant la teoria de Julia Kristeva sobre el llenguatge politic, i que permet una apreciacio dels poemes que va mes enlla del biografic en fer emfasi, en canvi, en els textos; d'aquesta manera, s'engrana amb la primera persona com una eina heuristica complexa i inestable. En explorar els poemes en termes de la seva transcendencia en lloc de centrar-se exclusivament en el seu significat explora la manera en la qual l'obra de Plath produeix una crisi de subjectivitat oratoria i, a partir d'aci, emergeix la naturalesa revolucionaria de la veu poetica.

Sylvia Plath is one of the best known and most controversial poets of the 20th century. Since her death in 1963, critical debate about her work has been lively and, at times, even hostile. This work illustrates how to read Plath from an alternative perspective, using Julia Kristevas theory of political language, and which allows an appreciation of the poems that goes beyond the biographical by emphasising the texts instead, thereby engaging with the first person as a complex and unstable heuristic tool. Exploring the poems in terms of their transcendence rather than focusing exclusively on their meaning explores the way in which Plaths work produces a crisis of oratorical subjectivity and, from this, the revolutionary nature of the poetic voice emerges.

"... you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you." In 1958 young Albert Martel was on his way. For four years he had been soaking in the avant-garde culture of radical politics, French philosophers, and abstract art. He was running with the chosen ones of the New York City art world. Soon he will fulfill his dream of studying painting full time. Everything he had planned for was in place. Until circumstances changed. Now, after sixty years of living in Upstate New York, he is a retired plumber with a barn full of paintings no one else has seen. Images continue to haunt his mind. Images he has to get onto canvass, but time is running out. He needs to make changes. His art has long been a wedge between himself and his son. Now he needs his help. He has his plans in place. That is until his granddaughter, Sophie enters his life. This is the story of a family torn by a dark secret shared between father and son. A secret that has to be brought into the light if they are to travel on together. With Sophie as their unlikely guide, they start down a path that changes their lives. Can this young woman, who is coming of age herself, bridge the gulf between these two men, or will the secret forever separate them?