I Have a Self to Recover: Sylvia Plath and the Literary Success of the Failed Suicide

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Published: Jun 21, 2012
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Clare Emily Clifford
Birmingham-Southern College

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Clare Emily Clifford, Birmingham-Southern College

Clare Emily Clifford

 

is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Birmingham-Southern College, and has published on confessional poetry about suicide in the collection Making Sense of Dying and Death (2004), about John Berryman's suicidal poetry in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, and on Vietnam War poetry in War, Literature, and the Arts. Her research is literary and interdisciplinary, often grounded in the field of Medical Humanities. She is currently working on a project about the textual corpus and the corporeal, examining representations of the ill, diseased, and dead body figured as cabinet of medical curiosity.