| How to Use This Book |
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| Begin reading the author |
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| How to approach unfamiliar or difficult texts |
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| Vocabulary |
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| Summary |
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Why Read Sylvia Plath Today? |
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Insight into women's lives |
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How to Approach Plath's Work |
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Starting to read Plath's poems |
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Biography and Influences 1932--1963 |
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The girl who would be god |
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22 | (13) |
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Writing and procreation/death |
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35 | (15) |
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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Outstanding technical accomplishment |
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Early reactions to The Bell Jar |
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Contradictions and paradoxes |
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Cultural-material and historical criticism |
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79 | (4) |
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Ted Hughes and Birthday Letters |
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79 | (1) |
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Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton |
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Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roethke, Pablo Neruda |
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| Glossary |
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| Chronology of Major Works |
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| Index |
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