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ERIC Number: EJ376010
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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The Feminist Discourse of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
Budick, E. Miller
College English, v49 n8 p872-85 Dec 1987
Argues that Sylvia Plath not only perceives the world as competing male and female languages, but attempts to write in the feminine. Discusses how "The Bell Jar" might define, as a solution to sociological and psychological problems of women, a language and art to secure women against male domination. (MS)
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Fiction, Language Role, Males, Persuasive Discourse, Sexual Identity, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bell Jar (The); Feminist Criticism; Feminist Scholarship; Male Female Relationship; Plath (Sylvia); Womens Literature