Sökning: "the bell jar"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden the bell jar.

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

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

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

5. 4. The representations of the female body in The Bell Jar

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Amanda Harris; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Ecofeminism; trans-corporeality; purity; sexuality; motherhood;

   Sammanfattning : This paper is about the representations of the female body in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. The pure female body, the sexual female body and motherhood (the female body as a mother) are analysed through an ecofeminist perspective. LÄS MER

7. 5. The True Cost of Womanhood: A study of women's mental health in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Monika Truncyte; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Mental health; mental illness; the US; the 19th century; the 20th century; feminism; the yellow wallpaper; the bell jar.; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : This essay examines the depiction of women’s mental health and the effects which societal ideals have on it in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. These two literary works openly criticise the societal standards of femininity in the 19th and 20th centuries. LÄS MER