Essays about: "Sylvia Plath"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Sylvia Plath.

  1. 1. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Kajsa Reinholdsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Taylor Swift; biographical performativity; mad studies; mad theory; auto biography; confessional poetry; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE

  3. 2. Marriage and Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar : An Analysis of Gender Expectations and Poetic Language

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Ebba Carlstein; [2023]
    Keywords : literature; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; marriage; motherhood; gender; expectations; roles; figurative language; poetic language; domesticity; women; 1950s; America;

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  4. 3. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  5. 4. Breaking the Bell Jar: Teaching Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Feminist Literary Criticism to Upper Secondary School Students

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jeanette Rolfsson; [2022]
    Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; feminist literary criticism; literature teaching; upper secondary school; English education; ESL; mental health; fundamental values; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equality, but also the topic of mental health. READ MORE

  6. 5. No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Kajsa Erikson; [2021]
    Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; psychoanalysis; feminism; Oedipus complex; bisexuality; castration; hysteria; melancholia;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. READ MORE