Project Director
O’Dea, Gregory
Department Examiner
Jordan, Joseph P., 1976-
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Investigating the formation of women's identities within Sylvia Plath's work, this paper seeks to understand the position of women within society during Plath's lifetime and in the wake of her death. Comparing genres of both public, private, and semi-public writing, I hinge my argument on Plath's famous fig tree passage to understand three distinct feminine identities and the inherent consumption and production that accompanies women's identity formation.
Acknowledgments
A sincerest thank you to all those who helped me on the way. Particularly to my director, Greg O'Dea, for his constant support, assurance, and generally brilliant ideas.
Degree
B. A.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Date
5-2024
Subject
Feminism and literature; Feminist literary criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Modernism (Literature); Women in literature
Name
Plath, Sylvia. Bell jar--Criticism and interpretation
Discipline
English Language and Literature
Document Type
Theses
Extent
iii, 77 leaves
DCMI Type
Text
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Recommended Citation
Dodge, Jane E., "Sylvia Plath’s fig tree: discourse formation and the production and consumption of women’s identity" (2024). Honors Theses.
https://scholar.utc.edu/honors-theses/461
Department
Dept. of English