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T1 Los paisajes de Sylvia Plath : ciudad versus naturaleza en "The Bell Jar"
A1 Martín Castilllejos, Ana María
K1 Historia de América
K1 America-History
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB Sylvia Plath was mainly a writer of natural landscapes. She lived close to naturalenvironments most of her life and and when she describes them in her personal and publicwritings she does it in a much more positive way than when she portrays urban settings.This articles analyzes the way New York is described in The Bell Jar, the only novel wekeep from Plath: an aggressive, inhuman and sinister place that constitutes an excellentexample of what Sigmund Freud defines as "uncanny" or "unheimlich". New York is in TheBell Jar a city where Esther Greenwood, the main character, does not feel comfortable butthreatened. In fact, in such a setting Esther does not even think of herself as a minorcharacter but as an element added to the urban chaos. This strong sensation worsen heralready delicate mental state until she gradually falls into a severe depression.Also, the impression that the city is just a "poster", an "improbable postcard" is repeated once and again in the novel and gives the place the same character of fantasy and unreality with which Rem Koolhas defines Manhattan from an architectural point of view.
PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 2000
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LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5049
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5049
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RD 23-abr-2024