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Extra: New York Icons: ‘The Bell Jar’
Extra: New York Icons: ‘The Bell Jar’
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Oct 29, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The Bell Jar is often read as a sort of literary suicide note by poet Sylvia Plath. The autobiographical novel memorably follows her first attempt at taking her own life and her experiences living in a mental institution and undergoing electroshock therapy, but its accounts of weeks spent in New York City preceding the breakdown provide a captivating picture, not just of Plath’s mental state, but of the impossible demands made of women in 1950s.
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Released:
Oct 29, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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