Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation

Description:

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of twentieth-century womanhood.

subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets,  Plath, sylvia, 1932-1963,  Philosophy in literature,  Iranian literature,  American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century,  Criticism and interpretation,  Reflection (Philosophy) in literature,  Research,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Fraud in science,  Integrity,  Iranian Women authors,  Biography