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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bell jar, by Sylvia Plath. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011022414 (OCoLC)729064976 |
Named Person: | Sylvia Plath |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Janet McCann |
ISBN: | 9781587658884 1587658887 |
OCLC Number: | 763182681 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 403 pages). |
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. |
Series Title: | Critical insights. |
Responsibility: | editor, Janet McCann. |
Abstract:
The Bell Jar has always been troubling reading, because its main character Esther Greenwood is so fully identified with Sylvia Plath herself. Attempts to separate them critically have not been successful. This volume consists of essays about The Bell Jar. Essays discuss how the novel reflected the time in which it was written and on the critical reception of the novel.
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