The bell jar, by Sylvia Plath

✍ Scribed by Plath, Sylvia;McCann, Janet

Publisher: Salem Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 417
Series: Critical insights
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This volume consists of new and old essays about The Bell Jar. The essays have some common directions: they are focused on how the time period affected Plath and her fictional counterpart Esther Greenwood; also on Esther's internal struggles and how they were dealt with by Esther and by others. There is also discussion of how Plath defined her creative life by looking at her writing process, her reading, her inspirations, and her thoughts about the writing life.

✦ Table of Contents

On The bell jar / Janet McCann --
Biography of Sylvia Plath / Jane Satterfield --
The Paris review perspective / Emma Straub for The Paris review --
"The domesticated wilderness" : patriarchal oppression in the bell jar / Allison Wilkins --
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar : understanding cultural and historical context in an iconic text / Iris Jamahl Dunkle --
Interruptions in a patriarchal world : Sylvia Plath's The bell jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, interrupted / Kim Bridgford --
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar : critical reception / Ellen McGrath Smith --
Sentient patterning in The bell jar / Pamela St. Clair --
"I have your head on my wall" : Sylvia Plath and the rhetoric of Cold War America / Sally Bayley --
The radical imaginary of The bell jar / Kate A. Baldwin --
Plath, domesticity, and the art of advertising / Marsha Bryant --
The feminist discourse of Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / E. Miller Budick --
Sylvia Plath's anti-psychiatry / Maria Farland --
Mad girls' love songs : two women poets, a professor and graduate student, discuss Sylvia Plath, angst, and the poetics of female adolescence / Arielle Greenberg and Becca Klaver --
(Sub)textual configurations : sexual ambivalences in Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Renée C. Hoogland --
"The woman is perfected, her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment" : Sylvia Plath and Mademoiselle magazine / Garry M. Leonard --
Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath : the self at stake / Solenne Lestienne --
The fig tree and the black patent leather shoes : the body and its representation in Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Nó́ra Séllei.

✦ Subjects

LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General;Criticism, interpretation, etc.;Aufsatzsammlung;Electronic books;Plath, Sylvia. -- Bell jar;Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation;Plath, Sylvia;Bell jar (Plath, Sylvia);Bell jar;Plath, Sylvia -- 1932-1963 -- The bell jar;Plath, Sylvia, -- 1932-1963;LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General

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