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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013

THE DESCRIPTION OF 'FATHER FIGURE' IN THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH AND KAMALA DAS

KHANDEKAR SURENDRA S.

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The present paper focuses on the description of 'Father Figure' in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das. As Confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das have described father figure in their various poems. Electra complex is a term coined by Sigmund Freud to denote the opposite of Oedipus complex

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KHANDEKAR SURENDRA S., (2013). THE DESCRIPTION OF 'FATHER FIGURE' IN THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH AND KAMALA DAS. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2551.pdf

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