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DECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL ISSUES IN PLATH’S POEMS
Sobia Abdulrehman* and Sohail Qamar Khan
ABSTRACT
This article aims at analyzing selected Sylvia Plath?s poems with reference to Derrida?s theory of Deconstruction. Deconstructive analysis of Plath?s poems reveals certain cultural issues. Culture encompasses all aspects of human life. It refers to the language, social habits, religion, cuisine, and art of a particular group of people. Edward Said views culture as ?the learned accumulated experience of communities, and it consists of socially transmitted patterns of behavior? (qtd in Said 21). Matthew Arnolds has described aesthetic sense of culture in his book Culture and Anarchy (1867). To him, culture means special intellectual or artistic enterprise or products. Arnolds? definition of culture makes it clear that a special group of society has culture while the rest are means of anarchy. As compared to Arnolds? view of culture, Tylor gives a more comprehensive definition of culture. Tylor asserts that all people being members of society have culture (qtd in Avruch 6). Sylvia Plath was well aware of the political and cultural development of her times and the cultural milieu manifests itself through her art. The research paper is aimed at to bring out multiplicity of meanings as they emerge in Plath?s poetry in the light of the theory of deconstruction. It further shows how deconstruction opens up space for multiple interpretations.
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