Plath Profiles volume 9
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Abstract
POETRY
03 In the Slivered Hospital Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
04 Self-Portrait as Hydrangea Shevaun Brannigan
05 The Beeswax Candle Janna Erickson
06 Sumption: Sivvy’s Food Crystal Hope Hurdle
08 Blue Water Natalie Crick
09 Night Natalie Crick
ARTICLES
18 Esther’s Uncanny Doubles: The “big, smudgy-eyed Chinese woman” and the
“bleached-blonde Negress” in The Bell Jar
Hiromi Yoshida
23 “Paula’s snowsuit was smeared wet and black with oil”: Sylvia Plath on Children’s Capacity for Love and War’s Influence of Hate
Julie Ooms
31 Mud Plus Struck Equals Muck: Filth andViolence in the Works of Sylvia Plath
Julia McCord Chavez, Robert C. Hauhart
34 Shrunken Heads: Reading Plath Reading Eliot
Sara Fetherolf
40 ‘Unintelligible syllables’: Noise in the poetry of Sylvia Plath
Christine Walde
STUDENT WORK
68 “Every Woman’s a Whore”: Misogyny and Hypocrisy in Sylvia Plath’s Oeuvre
Mercy D. Sherman
68 A World Without Men: Matriarchal Landscapes in Sylvia Plath’s “Stings,” “Wintering,” “Purdah,” and “Letter in November”
Constance Chan
68 Identity in The Bell Jar and The Perks of Being aWallflower: A Comparison
Taylor McGonigle
68 The significance of metaphor in ‘Daddy’
Elise Stanford
68 Exploring identity in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye
Jess Ardley
ART
55 Poems, Suitcases
Kristina Zimbakova