Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression

by Zsofia Demjen

Book Overview

Focusing on the first journal in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, this book writes a convincing case for the value of corpus-based stylistics and narrative psychology in the analysis of representations of the experience of affective states.

Situated at the intersection between language study, psychology and healthcare, this study of the personal writing of a poet and novelist showcases a cutting-edge combination of quantitative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350024252
• ISBN13: 9781350024250
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"