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  • The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson book cover
  • The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson book cover
  • The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson book cover
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The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

by Maggie Nelson

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Female ambition in pop and poetry

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Female ambition in pop and poetry

Maggie Nelson brings Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath into a shared critical frame, examining how both artists’ work is rooted in autobiography and creative abundance. The comparison connects popular culture with literary criticism, tracing a tension between women’s drive to make work and the cultural impulse to diminish or discipline it. At 64 pages, the book offers a compact meditation on female ambition through two very different figures in music and literature.

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  • Readers interested in feminist literary criticism and cultural commentary.
  • Those curious about comparisons between Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath.
  • Readers exploring how women’s creative ambition is received and judged.

Themes

Female ambitionFeminist criticismAutobiography and creative workPopular culture and literature

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Book overview

A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath

In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth--and as twinned targets of patriarchy's ancient urge to disparage, trivialize, and discipline creative work by women rooted in autobiography and abundance.

A buoyant melding of popular culture and literary criticism, The Slicks is a captivating and unexpected assessment of two iconic female artists by one of the most revered and influential critics of her generation.

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