Merging feminist and Freudian psychoanalytic approaches, this volume creates an illuminating portrait of Anne Sexton--a female hero in the tradition of Oedipus and his tragic quest for truth. George shows how Sexton's quest for knowledge transformed her into an embattled prophet as well as a tragic victim of her culture's malaise; and how she explored the cultural myths and archetypal relationships between parent and child, man and woman, divine and human. She contends that out of this exploration blossomed a poetry that is powerful, moving, and significant to mid-20th century artistic and psychic life.
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