Sylvia Plath's The bell jar

✍ Scribed by Plath, Sylvia;Bloom, Harold

Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 176
Series: Bloom's guides
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Howard Moss on illness and disclosure in the novel -- Vance Bourjaily on pseudonyms and alternate identities -- Robert Scholes on Plath's use of realism -- Linda W. Wagner on the female coming-of-age novel -- E. Miller Budick on Plath's feminist discourse -- Diane S. Bonds on Esther's tentative rebirth -- Paula Bennett on models of womanhood -- Pat Macpherson on the portrayal of social and gender conventions -- Tim Kendall on Esther's search for identity -- Marilyn Boyer on language and disability -- Kate A. Baldwin on the novel's social and political contexts -- Janet Badia on pop culture appropriations of The bell jar -- Works by Sylvia Plath -- Annotated bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction --
Biographical sketch --
The story behind the story --
List of characters --
Summary and analysis --
Howard Moss on illness and disclosure in the novel --
Vance Bourjaily on pseudonyms and alternate identities --
Robert Scholes on Plath's use of realism --
Linda W. Wagner on the female coming-of-age novel --
E. Miller Budick on Plath's feminist discourse --
Diane S. Bonds on Esther's tentative rebirth --
Paula Bennett on models of womanhood --
Pat Macpherson on the portrayal of social and gender conventions --
Tim Kendall on Esther's search for identity --
Marilyn Boyer on language and disability --
Kate A. Baldwin on the novel's social and political contexts --
Janet Badia on pop culture appropriations of The bell jar --
Works by Sylvia Plath --
Annotated bibliography.

✦ Subjects

LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General;Electronic books;Plath, Sylvia. -- Bell jar;LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General;Bell jar (Plath, Sylvia)

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