Sunday, April 07, 2013

The danger of fairy godmothers …

… The University Bookman: The Marilyn Monroe of Modern Literature'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The more I thought about it I came to believe that Monroe and Plath might be two transitional figures. Something was happening to the culture at that time in which these two sides, Hollywood and the fine arts, started to penetrate each other in interesting ways. Then I pick up Plath’s journal—as I describe in the book—and in it she describes a dream about Monroe as a fairy godmother! The boundaries are becoming more permeable, and though some readers still can’t see it, I really see a kind of cultural parallel between them.

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