Luke Ferretter is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century British and American Literature at Baylor University. He is the author of two books on critical theory, and of several articles on twentieth century literature and theory, including essays on Sylvia Plath, D.H. Lawrence, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Plath Profiles.
Just as the unabridged Journals reveal Sylvia Plath's ferocious
drive and dedication to the written word, Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A
Critical Study documents her struggle during the repressive 1950s
to find the biting, sardonic prose voice of The Bell Jar. Luke
Ferretter brilliantly traces Plath's apprenticeship from the age of
thirteen to thirty, uncovering many unpublished short stories along
the way in American archives. Every scholar of Sylvia Plath needs
to read Luke Ferretter's ground- breaking work, the first serious
examination of the riveting prose voice of one of the 20th
century's most electrifying poets.--Karen V. Kukil, Associate
Curator of Special Collections, Smith College
With tenacity and clear-eyed scholarly authority, Luke Ferretter
has gone into the archive and emerged with a systematic sourcebook
for readers of Sylvia Plath's fiction... Adeptly drawing on and
adding to the body of recent criticism that has enlarged our sense
of the scope and complexity of Plath's creativity, this is a very
valuable book.--Langdon Hammer, Professor of English and American
Studies, Yale University
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