Critical Insights: The Bell Jar -

Janet McCann

Salem Press

2012

404 páginas

13h 28m

ISBN-10: B008BT9EJA

The Bell Jar is a highly distinctive and unusual book, and although the era of the 1950s it represents has faded and disappeared into history, the power of this novel does not dissipate. The original essays in this volume each take on a specific angle from which to examine the work. One essay discusses the issue of “nature vs. nurture” in the novel, while another discusses the similarities between Plath’s work and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. The older essays provide some of the finest scholarship on The Bell Jar that has been made available over the years, and offer a wide variety of critical approaches to this work.