Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 91 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-91).

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Female identity in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel collection (first published in 1965) is a complex site of being and becoming within a 1950s culture of performance. From a twenty-first century perspective, this dissertation bridges traditional and contemporary readings of Plath and the Plath archive through a referencing of motifs such as celebrity, ‘the gaze’, ventriloquism and clothing. The inter-discursive approach used – literary, psychoanalytic, cultural – attempts to underline the ongoing significance of Plath’s place as a woman poet in literary studies. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009. / Additional advisors: Sue Kim, Christopher Metress, Kieran Quinlan. Description based on contents viewed June 4, 2009; title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-91).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvia Maria Barile Alessandri.pdf: 2847855 bytes, checksum: da4b449a9f951bfd9425b3db054e19b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-20 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis is a study about the suicide by means of Sylvia Plath. This American writer perpetrated suicide at the age of 30, after 2 attempts: the first at the age of 20, when in the university and the second at the age of 29, already married and mother of two young children. Although her literary production is considered by many as autobiography, in this search I have used only the diaries, handwritten and letters edited by Karen Kukil in The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950 - 1962. From these registers I make psychoanalytic considerations based on the Freud s theory and Lacan s teaches. The interest of this theme succeeded from the clinic activities. I verify, and this constitutes my thesis, that in the melancholy, when faced with I m nothing, I m no more than rubbish , stated by Lacan, succeed from the conviction of the inefficiency or non existence of the Other s love, easily can lead in to the suicide. In the melancholy, the subject, faced with the foreclosure of the Name-of-the- Father, may find an imaginary supplying. However, towards the Lacan s node theory, the supplying of the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father may take place towards Sinthome / Esta tese é um estudo acerca do suicídio, por meio de Sylvia Plath. Esta escritora norte-americana suicidou-se com trinta anos, após duas tentativas de suicídio: a primeira aos vinte anos, enquanto fazia faculdade, e a segunda, aos vinte e nove anos, já casada e com dois filhos pequenos. Embora sua obra literária seja considerada por muitos estudiosos como autobiográfica, utilizo nesta pesquisa apenas os diários, manuscritos e cartas que foram editados por Karen Kukil em Os diários de Sylvia Plath. 1950-1962. A partir destes registros realizo considerações psicanalíticas fundamentada na teoria freudiana e no ensino de Lacan. O interesse por este tema vem da clínica. Constato, e isto constitui minha tese, que na melancolia, quando diante do Nada sou, não sou mais que um lixo , formulado por Lacan, advém a certeza da ineficácia ou da inexistência do amor do Outro, facilmente pode haver a precipitação ao suicídio. Na melancolia, o sujeito, diante da foraclusão do Nome-do-Pai, pode encontrar uma suplência imaginária. Porém, com a teoria dos nós de Lacan, a suplência à foraclusão do Nome-do-Pai pode se dar via Sinthoma

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In the preface, I discuss my poetry and poetics such as the free verse form and the narrative mode. I also discuss my influences such as Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Sheri L. Wright. The poems in this manuscript attempt to explore the role of trauma, feminism, and memory in poetry.

<p>This essay focuses on female identity formation in patriarchal society in Virginia Woolf’s <em>To The Lighthouse </em>and Sylvia Plath’s <em>The Bell Jar</em>. Both authors portray female characters who struggle with the normative gender identity. As the novels represent different eras and locations, the two characters examined in this essay, Woolf’s Lily Briscoe and Plath’s Esther Greenwood, have very little in common on the surface. However, both authors deliver similar feminist social criticism concerning the negative impact of patriarchal norms on female identity formation. This study analyzes some of these external constraints, or norms, and aims to prove that the two female characters’ ideas of womanhood and identity collide in a similar manner with those norms. Schachter’s study on identity constraints in identity formation and Sanchez and Crocker’s research on gender ideals work as the theoretical background in the study. The negative influence on Lily’s and Esther’s identity formation is similar since both characters live under a symbolical bell jar, unable to form their identity according to their own preferences. Patriarchal conventions remain a constant constraint and the two women keep struggling to find a balance between their own ideas and those of their societies. Both Lily and Esther grow to understand their own traits, desires and abilities in their respective stories, but fail to reach their preferred identity. Their resistance to adapt to gender conventions helps them to form a stronger identity, but it is an identity that remains profoundly and negatively influenced by the patriarchal norms of their societies.</p>