Sökning: "Sylvia Plath"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 22 uppsatser innehållade orden Sylvia Plath.

1. 11. 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

3. 12. Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten : Uncanny Space in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

   Magister-uppsats, Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Författare :Eva Stenskär; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Uncanny; Unheimlich; Space; Mythology; Lazarus; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Marie-Laure Ryan; Yi-Fu Tuan; Julia Kristeva;

   Sammanfattning : Sylvia Plath’s poetry continues to receive considerable attention from a variety of groups and has been the target for such diverse critical approaches as Feminism, Ecocriticism, and Marxism, to name but a few. My paper focuses on a less investigated area of her poems: Space, and more specifically uncanny space in her later poetry. LÄS MER

4. 13. Depressionens diktning. En studie av melankoliska processer i Karin Bellmans 'Stjärnvattenfallet' och Sylvia Plaths 'The Bell Jar'

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Författare :Kajsa Lunde; [2018-03-28]
   Nyckelord :melancholia; depression; melancholic; literature; melancholic identifications; Freud;

   Sammanfattning : Does depression have a language? Is there such a thing as an explicit depressive narrative? This thesis serves to answer these questions with a study of the portrayal of depression in the novels Stjärnvattenfallet by Karin Bellman and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. With a methodological background in Freudian theory the study investigates the versatility of the melancholy process as an analytical method in comparative literature. LÄS MER

5. 14. SEX AND SUCCESS. A Feminist Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Agnese Boffano; [2018-01-19]
   Nyckelord :engelska; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; Feminist Criticism; sexuality; sexual hierarchy;

   Sammanfattning : Sexuality is an subject area that affects the power relations between genders, where one gender uses sex to subjugate and control the other. Sylvia Plath comments on this use of sexuality in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, while also criticising how sex is used to limit women’s success but used to enhance men’s success. LÄS MER

7. 15. The Destructive Performance - A Feminist Reading of Three Texts Written by Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Johanna Molin; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” are three literary texts in which the three protagonists seem to play a role which makes them miserable and suicidal. This essay explores what elements that are involved in making these women unhappy and self-destructive. LÄS MER