Sylvia Plath's The bell jar

by Bloom, Harold

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloom's Literary Criticism
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (175 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438117119, 1438117116
oclc:ocn362359518
LC Classification:PS3566.L27
Dewey Decimal:813/.54

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.